Advice needed- PLEASE!

[joletabey]

OK, I still don't have my own chickens, just my neighbors friendly five that come to visit and a sixth one, Hermione, that roosts in my horse barn instead of going home at night. Hermione also had a nesting spot picked out- the sink in my potting shed! I get frequent presents from her (the neighbor says its fine about her roosting in my barn and about the eggs, she said "eat 'em up!" NICE neighbor!), but she appears to have gone broody in the sink. She has not moved for two days, does that high pitched, soft "screeeee" noise when I come near her. I hand fed her noodles, asparagus and cheese last night (none of these chickens will eat chicken feed or scratch, I have tried both- they free range) I have left her water and some more snacks on the sink today, but this is NOT a secure place at night. There was a post somewhere about moving them off the nest and taking the eggs and maybe they will quit being broody, but I can't find it. I don't think anyone in the neighborhood has a roo, so poor Hermione is wasting her time!
Should I just try moving her myself or is it better to call my neighbor and have her get this hen, even though she doesn't roost there and hasn't for several months now. Would she feel more secure if I just moved her back into my barn continually until she gives up? I have come to love this chicken, and don't want her attacked in the night in my potting shed.
Advice?
Thanks,
Beth

 

[KellyHM]

If you can move her nest and eggs back to your barn and put them in a nice place she will most likely sit on them there. The worst that will happen is she'll stop being broody. If she stays broody you should get some fertile eggs to stick under her so you have chickens of your own.

 

[Fowl Visions]

If the eggs are not fertile then no need in wasting time having the hen be broody. I would try to break the broodiness. I recently did it with one of mine, a RIR. She was sitting on 10 fertile eggs and I moved the nest (during the daytime) and her to another location. After that she would not sit on the nest again.

I took the eggs and now they are in the incubator and she is acting normal again and laying daily.

 

[horsejody]

Remove her from the nest, remove her nesting material, and put a rubber snake in the nest. The snake may scare her off. She will be upset but better off. Broodieness can be hard on a hen. They often loose weight and can take a while to recover if we let them sit too long. I had a hen once that insisted on staying on the nest most of a summer. She was sitting on a plastic dinosaur and a teenage mutant ninja turtle doll.

 

[joletabey]

TOO FUNNY!!!
Well, am I way out of bounds if I say your hen has a certain mama wannabe recently in the news beat all hollow for wanting babies. . . .
Thanks for the advice- I will move her somewhere and maybe put a cover on the sink. . . .I don't think I could deal with even a rubber snake!!!!
I wish I could get fertile eggs and get my own chicks, but we just got a coop, don't have a run, and I don't have anywhere safe for babies. . . .at least not yet!!!!!