Does anyone else have an issue with Ameraucanas repeatedly going broody?

[greggooo]

We have 6 birds, a small flock. 3 Easter Eggers and 3 Ameraucanas. The easter eggers lay very regularly and they have yet to go broody. The ameraucanas have each gone broody twice since march, and they are so hard to break. I've tried removing them from the nests, then blocking the nesting boxes, then moving them at night, locking them all out of the coop in the daytime, and just tried the cool water dip (not ice water, just from the hose). What's next? Do I put them in a broody breaker cage inside?

Does anyone have any special methods?

 

[mixedbreeds]

Yes I have 3 of them they have been broody more than not you would think they were silkies. In a cage with good air flow is the only way I know that works to break them but then they just go broody again in a couple of weeks. I think I’m going to get rid of mine. I have around 75 chickens with 9 broodys at the moment 3 broodys being ameraucanas

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I had one that raised several broods of chicks for me.
All that labor you are doing is unnecessary.
Place the offending birds in elevated wire bottom cages with a little food and water. Problem solved in two or three days depending on ambient temperature.
It isn't a special method, it is what people have done for centuries to break setting hens.

 

[Chickenlover8814]

One method I've heard of is to put packs of cool water or ice packs under the hen and repeatedly take her eggs. Occasionally though there will be that super determined hen that is hard to break. One thing I recommend would be to separate the Ameracaunas from the flock because often one broody bird can lead to more broody hens! Hope you get it figured out!

 

[RWise]

My Blue Ameraucana has been broody 1 time in 8 years, and my EEs have never gone broody. IF she goes broody again she will get eggs! She was a great mom, nobody got within 15 feet of her clutch!
The broody buster is the first step here for a hen I do not want (to attempt) to raise chicks, that BA is not a good mom,,,

 

[aart]

If the weather is really hot, wetting under undercarriage can help.

My experience went like this: After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest, I put her in a wire dog crate with smaller wire on the bottom but no bedding, set up on a couple of 4x4's right in the coop with feed and water.

I used to let them out a couple times a day, but now just once a day in the evening(you don't have to) and she would go out into the run, drop a huge turd, race around running, take a vigorous dust bath then head back to the nest... at which point I put her back in the crate. Each time her outings would lengthen a bit, eating, drinking and scratching more and on the 3rd afternoon she stayed out of the nest and went to roost that evening...event over, back to normal tho she didn't lay for another week or two. Or take her out of crate daily very near roosting time(30-60 mins) if she goes to roost great, if she goes to nest put her back in crate.