Broody Hen

[WVPrincess304]

First flock, my hen has been broody for several days now. We have no rooster, so no fertilized eggs. We remove them as soon as we can and remove her from the coop as well, but she goes back in and spends all day on the nest. What can we do to break her broodiness?

 

[aart]

This is how I do it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/broody-breaking-ala-aart.77915/

 

[GodLovesU]

If you’d like chicks you can order fertilized eggs for her to sit.

 

[WVPrincess304]

This is how I do it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/broody-breaking-ala-aart.77915/

I started this like the day after you posted this and it has not worked on her.

 

[aart]

I started this like the day after you posted this and it has not worked on her.

Post pics of your breaker crate and tell us where you put it.
Was she in it 24/7...and for how many days and nights??

 

[WVPrincess304]

Post pics of your breaker crate and tell us where you put it.
Was she in it 24/7...and for how many days and nights??

Not best picture, it's from my coop camera when I set it up before she was placed inside. It is inside the coop by their roosts. I'm unable to raise it up off the ground due to the roosts. She is on bare linelioum though, all bedding is out of the crate. She has been in there actually few days after posted because I had to find a crate, so she's been in there roughly for 10 days.

 

[aart]

I'm unable to raise it up off the ground due to the roosts.

That can be pretty important.
I had one that tries to 'hatch' the chunk of 2x4 on the crate floor, had to remove it...and she still takes a couple rounds of 3-5 days to break.

 

[Debbie292d]

Not best picture, it's from my coop camera when I set it up before she was placed inside. It is inside the coop by their roosts. I'm unable to raise it up off the ground due to the roosts. She is on bare linelioum though, all bedding is out of the crate. She has been in there actually few days after posted because I had to find a crate, so she's been in there roughly for 10 days.

It looks like at least there's air flow under her which is important, but I'd lose the linoleum. You don't want her to be comfortable.

 

[WVPrincess304]

It looks like at least there's air flow under her which is important, but I'd lose the linoleum. You don't want her to be comfortable.

Well the linoleum is on the bottom of the whole coop, not just under her.

 

[WVPrincess304]

If you’d like chicks you can order fertilized eggs for her to sit.

I about to just give in to her and do that lol. Where's best place to get some?