How do I make this stop?

LearningToFly

In the Brooder
12 Years
May 4, 2007
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Helen, my 3yo Australorp, is broody. This is my first broody hen ever. Normally docile Helen is sitting on the eggs, growling and turning her feathers inside out and just being a pain.

How do I encourage her to return to her 'unbroodyness'?
 
Take her eggs. Try putting her in a cage with a wire bottom the wind on her belly should break her.
I know all about broodies... stupid silkies are always on a nest...
 
We are taking her eggs daily. She's not only sitting on her own but on the two other hens' eggs as well. It's a fight to get the eggs; we are using a baseball glove as a shield.

I don't have access to a wire cage. One thing we have tried is locking her out of the roost box but then the other hens are locked out as well.
 

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