broody again

I have a black copper marans who recently went broody for the first time so I gave her 6 eggs. She successfully hatched 5 of them and then the next day she killed them all. When I found them she was still sitting on the nest because there were still two eggs under her that were laid by other...

We have a broody hen. A couple days after she started being broody, a raccoon got into the coop before sundown and attacked her. Luckily, we have cameras and were able to stop the attack and take care of the raccoon. We brought her indoors to our bathroom for a couple nights to treat her for...

I have three very persistent broody hens and it got me wondering... What does everyone do when they have broody hens? I'm curious to hear people's creative solutions. Do you let them hatch? Give away the babies? Get them chicks to adopt? Try to break them? Not sure what I'm going to do. Had...

So I have several chickens who are losing feathers just on their heads.. They will be a year in August so I don't think it's molting. I've checked their wings and vent for lice or mites and not seeing anything nor are they losing feathers else where... I did deep clean their coop today and...

Well I’ve read a ton of threads on here about other broody hens. I’m not particularly hopeful for a solution but here’s my hen’s story. It is a long one… sparknotes version: young hen broody many times won’t stop despite every intervention possible and her health is compromised due to her...

My one RIR hatched 2 adopted eggs 12 weeks ago. She started laying again when they were 6 weeks. So it has only been 6 weeks of laying and I am pretty sure she is broody again. Is this going to be a regular thing with her? We already have 5 more chickens than we can legally have. If this is...