Best way to break a broody run away?

[nuthatched]

Hi there,
My friend just managaged to capture a run away broody that's she's been trying to catch for 6 weeks.
She's super underweight and she's acting like she has baby chicks, ( quarking and growling at us while fluffing her hackles and tail.) and acting like shes never seen us before.
We have her in a dog crate in the shed (it's cool here and the windows and door is open) she has food, water, lettuce and chopped boiled eggs. We're planning on letting her recuperate in there for a few days then shutting her in with the others.
She'd been coming back every few days, so there shouldn't be any arguing.
Any ideas on helping her break the broody cycle and getting her healthy again?

She used to look like this and was the friendliest hen.

 

[Climax]

6 weeks? She probably wanted chicks really bad . But from what I know, if she doesn't have eggs to sit on she will eventually stop in a couple days.

 

[aart]

My friend just managaged to capture a run away broody that's she's been trying to catch for 6 weeks.

Has she been setting a nest for that long?

 

[nuthatched]

I don't know, we would see her everyday or every other day so we assumed she was broody somewhere in the neighbors yard, the neighbors aren't there full time and have a 8 foot wooden fence so we couldn't look/catch for her. Initially, I thought she would be come back in a week or two when she figured out her eggs weren't any good. But then we'd go days without seeing her and when we did, she'd skedaddle through some hole in the fence. She's acting like a mother hen now with imagined chicks.

 

[nuthatched]

I didn't noticed how long her nails were, I wonder if she was trapped somewhere.