6 hens, no rooster, 3 broody. What's up with that??

[4 MimisPeeps]

My 6 hens are all just one year old. Production was going great, even all winter with between 4 and 6 eggs a day. About a month ago one Welsummer bantam went broody for a couple of weeks although I would regularly toss her out about 3 pm and close the pop door until right before dusk. It broke her. Now in the past week three have gone broody, a standard WPR, bantam EE and the other bantam Welsummer. I'm lucky to get 2 eggs a day. What can I do? They arent always even sitting on an egg. Keep tossing them out or does that mentally harm them? Thanks in advance!

 

[chicken boy123]

It will not harm them to throw them out of the nest. You could sacrifice a few days worth of eggs and block off the nesting box and then three days after you block them off the brooding should stop.