Help!! one of my Blackrocks has gone broody, shes in isolation in the dog cage, but the other 3 hens have also stopped laying???? I had to take her out as they'd been pulling her head feathers out, she looks a bit like emu!! She is the lowest in pecking order, she's still broody, all fluffed up an clucky, but I'm wondering why the others have stopped laying too? Shes the one furthest from
the camera - naturally!
Maybe they are going broody as well. I hope not!!
If "dog cage" means the standard plastic box with solid floor, I think you will have to do more to break her. The presumed 'answer' is to get them off the ground so they can't stay all heated up underneath. My PC is on day 3 of being in the broody box (just a rectangular 'box' made of 2x2s and 1/2" hardware cloth on all sides, top and bottom) sitting on the roosts in the coop. She and the Favorelles are tough to crack.
My EE and Favorelles are picked on my the Anconas and have a similar lack of head and neck feathers. Won't get Anconas again, not for a mixed flock. VERY sorry to see that it happen so badly in a single breed flock.
Bruce