broody cage/jail?

[Cazook]

Is a 4x2x1ft wire floor quail cage suitable as a broody jail? I've got her in during the day and planning on putting her in the coop (her nest is somewhere else) until she returns to normal. It's the only cage I've got with a wire floor since I heard you need to have air flow under them. Will this work? Or any ideas? It looks so cruel to her lol.

 

[Cazook]

i also gave her a cool bath in the sink and i'm sure she hates me now, lol.

 

[AppleMomma65]

Is a 4x2x1ft wire floor quail cage suitable as a broody jail? I've got her in during the day and planning on putting her in the coop (her nest is somewhere else) until she returns to normal. It's the only cage I've got with a wire floor since I heard you need to have air flow under them. Will this work? Or any ideas? It looks so cruel to her lol.

So, I just went through this. I can tell you that your chicken really should be able to move around in it. I used a wire dog kennel that had a hard ma on the floor and no bedding. I put it up on bricks. Put some food and water in it and put it where she can see her chicken friends and they can see her. And also - keep her in there - full time - until you notice a chance in behavior (no clucking, she's eating, drinking). Then let her out at early dusk and see how she is. It took my hen 3 full days of being in there.

I tried the water - it didn't work.

 

[Cazook]

Hen like chicken hen?
And she made a nest high up in a tree? I haven't ever used a broody breaking cage but I have read they work. Not sure what size is rec for one hen, maybe @sourland has had more experience.

yeah, a chicken. these pavlov crosses seem to love making nests in the most ridiculous places possible. when the cockerel was smaller he managed to fly 20ft straight up into a tree to roost. now they're a bit bigger they can only clear about 6-8ft but still much more agile than my 'light sussex' hen.

 

[aart]

the ceiling is maybe 2" above her head though.

When she is standing?
Got pics?

 

[Emelyn]

Is a 4x2x1ft wire floor quail cage suitable as a broody jail? I've got her in during the day and planning on putting her in the coop (her nest is somewhere else) until she returns to normal. It's the only cage I've got with a wire floor since I heard you need to have air flow under them. Will this work? Or any ideas? It looks so cruel to her lol.

You can keep picking her up and lifting her out of the nest or let her hatch some chicken/duck eggs. My hen successfully hatched and raised Cayugas a few days ago

 

[Cazook]

You can keep picking her up and lifting her out of the nest or let her hatch some chicken/duck eggs. My hen successfully hatched and raised Cayugas a few days ago

i've got a hen with chicks and another hen sitting on a nest already, and this broody built her nest high up in a tree where even if she hatches anything the chicks will die anyway.

 

[Emelyn]

i've got a hen with chicks and another hen sitting on a nest already, and this broody built her nest high up in a tree where even if she hatches anything the chicks will die anyway.

Oh umm...

@sourland
@Miss Lydia

 

[rayrose]

How big is the hen?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hen like chicken hen?
And she made a nest high up in a tree? I haven't ever used a broody breaking cage but I have read they work. Not sure what size is rec for one hen, maybe @sourland has had more experience.