Broody or Bust: Can You Handle a Sitting Hen?

[Bruthabuz]

I just released a broody Easter Egger today after 4 days of incarceration. It seems to have worked. I haven't seen her on the nest at all today.
Keeping my fingers crossed because the only jail I have is filled again!

BTW, I got 9 correct (but I had to make my best guess on a couple of them).

 

[McChooky]

On day 2 I moved my broody hen because I was afraid the other hens would break her eggs.(I gave her 8) When she got up to eat and poop I unscrewed the nest box from the wall and moved it with the eggs to the other side of the divided coop where I raise the pullets. By the time I'd added water and feeder for her she was back so I got her and put her on the nest but she got off.She squawked a couple minutes but settled down after I darkened the room with a tarp.That was a couple days ago and she's still sitting on them

 

[McChooky]

Funny timing! One of my hens is broody now. This is her first time so I wasn’t sure how she would behave. But she is just as sweet as all my others!! I’m getting pretty confused why everyone says their broodies are so mean

We never knew when dads hens went broody.They liked to surprise us

 

[Norma Swatsenberg]

Broody Boss.
My little Phyllis has been broody for like 2 months now and won't stop- even if she isn't laying on any eggs. She thinks that I'll let her this time because she has hatched chicks for 2 years in a row now. Last year, along with Rose and Dottie, and the year before, she co-parented with RoseAnd I never really see her come out of the nest often at all.
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I just love letting her hatch chicks because I know that it makes her happy, but her babies always end up being feral

You need to handle them and hand feed them. I have one baby(teen) that follows us around like a puppy always looking for a treat or a cuddle. Hand feeding i find is the best way to befriend a chick.

 

[ebbylou]

I have a broody hen real young and i don't have a rooster so we can't get baby chicks and I physically have to take her out the hen box and even sometimes lock her out so that she will eat, drink and roam around the yard

 

[User690263]

I have a broody hen real young and i don't have a rooster so we can't get baby chicks and I physically have to take her out the hen box and even sometimes lock her out so that she will eat, drink and roam around the yard

Welcome to BYC! I've had to do a similar thing for one of my broody hens who just WOULD NOT STOP being broody.
If you haven't already, you should introduce yourself in the New member introductions section of BYC!