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Wickedchicken6 said:
You are braver than I. I don't have a garage (in this yard) and I don't want a wet hen in the house. :D

It shouldn't take that long...although I've never done a suspended broody cage. I don't have enough cages.:confused: Earlier this summer, I stopped 13 broody hens overnight by moving them onto roosts once it got dark in the evening. Only one had thoughts of it in the morning...so I put her back in the back pen and that worked. That was fairly painless.

The next group was a bit more tenacious...but I kept the eggs gathered and locked them outside for part of the day. That worked as well.

However I don't have egg eaters per say. I break them lots of raw eggs myself and they aren't interested in eggs I don't feed them. Hopefully hers wouldn't peck since they've had clay eggs.
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Maybe my girls are just too persistent! I have tried putting them on the roosts and dark and locking them out for the day and I have never had it work. The only way I have ever been able to break them was by dipping them. Although I rarely break my broodies... I have a broody on eggs as we speak! Granted they are Toad eggs...
 
holm25 said:
Maybe my girls are just too persistent! I have tried putting them on the roosts and dark and locking them out for the day and I have never had it work. The only way I have ever been able to break them was by dipping them. Although I rarely break my broodies... I have a broody on eggs as we speak! Granted they are Toad eggs...
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Oh gosh....raise them toads up then. :thumbsup Just a quick question...do they handle the cold well?
 
I might consider COOL water in the summer, but never this time of the year. I had a broody hen this summer, and easily broke her in less than a week by shutting her in a chicken tractor every day, and letting her go back to the coop to roost at night. I'd get up early the next morning, feed the flock, then open up the nest boxes (was keeping them closed off at night b/c of youngsters). She'd come out to the run, eat breakfast, then run straight to her nest box. I'd pluck her out of the box, and toss her back in the tractor with a friend for the day. Rinse and repeat.
 

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