Broody in favorite nesting box & getting fewer eggs

[beepbeepinajeep]

Has anyone else had this happen? I have tried getting our broody little silkie off of the nest multiple times a day, but she gets back on after eating/drinking. She is all puffed up and makes a scary noise (well it would be if she weren't so little and not scary

) Any ideas? I have tried just putting her in another nesting box, but she likes the favorite box too & goes right back.

 

[Ridgerunner]

If you are not going to give her eggs to hatch, you should break her from being broody. It sounds like this is what you are trying to do. This thread may help you out.

Break a Broody Thread
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2176186#p2176186

Good luck!

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

Thank you... not an egg today & we only got two yesterday. We had been getting four.

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

We did get three eggs today. I think they must have kicked out our broody blue silkie to do their business (although she is second in command of the girls & she is our smallest hen), but she was sitting on them. If I put her in a broody cage will she return at the same level? I don't want her to get picked on. Maybe I could put the broody cage inside the coop where they can all see her?

 

[Charlene]

I have had luck un-brooding mine by simply taking that particular nest away. It does get the other ones all in a flutter but usually they just pick another nest to use.