Boody Hens. Help!

[Doc McCluckins]

I'm ready to fry some chickens. I had eggs for hatching in the spring and early summer. Not one hen would set.. I ordered babies since my incubator attempts were in vain. Now we are selling eggs and now I have 5 hens that want nothing more than to set. Is there anything I can do to deter them. I would let them raise but they are stupid and when they get up to drink they often come back to the wrong box so several times now I have brought in eggs to cook with chicks inside

. So now I am pulling all eggs but the ones I get in the evening have been set on up until I get there, which makes me nervous.

 

[amynrichie]

Gather eggs at least twice a day. Do a search here on how to break a broody hen. I have a separate sheltered pen I lock mine in during the day. After dark I let her roost in the coop.I lock her up, away from the coop daily until she decides to not return to the nest. Last time it only took two days.

 

[Doc McCluckins]

I leave for work before they start laying during the week and don't get home until almost dark most nights. I'll try separating her though to break her habits. Thanks!

 

[aart]

Water nipple bottle added after pic was taken...add a feeder too since you'll be gone all day.
Gotta be hard to manage birds when working full time.