Bryce Thomas
Songster
I have tried all the tricks in the book, I have done the broody breaker cage, removed her from the nest, removed the nesting boxes literally everything and nothing works. When it does work the second she finds an egg shaped rock or a shaded area that's just nice for incubating eggs she goes broody. If I stop her then she will just go broody again and never stops. I don't want more chicks and both my 2 mature laying silkies are broody and don't lay eggs so I don't even have any eggs. I feel like giving up and letting her go broody for 21 days but she never stops and I know its only a matter of time before she dies of thirst or hunger because she refuses to get off the nest. I have 2 fake eggs for my 2 nesting boxes and even If I remove the 2 fake eggs shadow still goes broody. I honestly don't know what to do at this point and I know its not a how but a when as there is always a tiny chance of a broody hen dying on the nest for every day that a hen is on the nest. I have tried everything for about a month now and she still wants to go broody. If there was a guiness world record for the most broody hen on earth this chicken Shadow would have that achievement and its so stressing and annoying. I have even caged off every location that she would go broody before removing all the chickens then putting them back in so they are not locked in. The wire mesh (1x1 inch holes) was impossible to get through and it was 8 feet tall. Shadow is 2 times smaller than my rooster Koa and he can only jump 4 and a half feet. These cage mesh were 8 feet. I have wooden boards over everything. Not even a parrot would figure out how to get in and these boards were HEAVY and she STILL gets in to these locations. The boards seemed to have moved a little so im assuming she jumped up there somehow and scurried into the nesting box area, the cage mesh was not moved and there was no tunnel burrowed. She is some ninja chicken that wont stop being broody. This is not a troll post. She can literally get into an impossible to get in cage and still go broody. I love shadow and it would be like losing a child to have her die and I know a hen can die of broodiness and she just wont stop. Someone help me please any help would be greatly appreciated! ! !