That's what we do now. I was putting broodies in a pet pen on our gravel driveway but there's no shade so when summer hit, hubby set me a wire pet cage on bricks in the dog kennel. A bucket of water is tied to one corner, small feeder in the other, and a 2x4 on the other end for them to perch on so they aren't standing on wire. Usually 2 days does it, but sometimes 4.
Sounds like a good set up.
Way better than this one. It worked, but added to making our growout pen area look like a homeless camp.
That's our breeding pen. Our neighbor gave us her green house tarp from the kit she bought as she only wanted the frame. Hubby built the frame. That's our parrot aviary behind there we're moving to behind the garage so he can fix that area up for growout pens and make it look a lot better.
I've got a broody in jail, yesterday and today so far. She's in a wire dog crate on blocks on top of an old picnic table under a tree for shade. I'll keep her out there tomorrow as well but at sunset I'll put her back in gen pop. If she goes back to being broody, I'll put her back in jail for three more days, and if that doesn't break her ... it's freezer camp for her. She's not but about 7 months old. But if she won't break, she'll die anyway, poor thing.
You have parrots? What kind? I used to raise birds in Mi. And made them rooms for each breed but no parrots.
Two blue and gold macaws. Sophie I've had for over 20 years. Julio for about 15.
What breed is she?
It's so frustrating when they go broody, we break them, then two weeks later they're right back at it again. I did find out that one time, it was rooster-caused. These hens can be good actors!
