HELP INSANE BROODINESS!

[DaisyBuff]

Please help. I have a Rhode Island Red Hen (Autumn) That sits on eggs when I try to collect them! If she sits on the eggs in one box I move to the other box to get the eggs, but she gets off the other box and sits on the box that I collect the other eggs from. If I reach in the nesting box to collect the eggs, she attacks me! If I leave ( or pretend to leave so I can sneak back to get the eggs) she hops right off the eggs and continues pecking the ground. If I come back to get the eggs, she rushes back to sit on the eggs to keep me from getting them. She has gave me many scratches and peck marks and bites me and goes crazy and attacks me viciously! I'm still sore now theirs eggs in the box and I need to get them before Henrietta (my other Rhode Island Red Hen) eats them. Autumn even sits on eggs that are not even hers! PLEASE HELP ME!
Thanks

 

[sourland]

Make her behave - you are bigger than her.

 

[DaisyBuff]

Make her behave - you are bigger than her.

I put her in the box part of the pen with some food and water locked away from the other chickens In a couple hours I will let her back out hopefully she will learn her lesson being grounded for a while. I got the eggs out to.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

You'll have to break her broodiness. Doesn't matter if they're her eggs to her

 

[rosemarythyme]

Is she actually broody? If so, how long has this been going on?

A good pair of gloves would really help with egg gathering, but I'm trying to figure out if she's actually broody (in which case you should've broken her at onset) or if you mean she acts like an angry broody might, without actually setting.

 

[aart]

In a couple hours I will let her back out hopefully she will learn her lesson being grounded for a while.

Doubt this will help, and you may be 'punishing' her for no reason.

Take the eggs, wear gloves if needed, be calm, confident, and quick....just do it.
Replace the gathered eggs with fake eggs to help deter the egg eating issue.


Here are my go-to signs of a broody:
Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?

If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.

 

[DaisyBuff]

Yes she has all of the signs of broodiness. Then she is a angry broody chicken I will do as you recommend.

 

[DaisyBuff]

We don't have a rooster so she can't hatch chicks. But I think she is more like a angry broody.