Jmcintosh23
Chirping
I have two and they always want to go in there and sit I just have to keep taking her eggs and putting her out of the nesting box.. one of them does get up it the other one wanted to sit on them all day and she did it when I took them. So then I let her hatch eggs and I marked them bc other hens were trying to get in her box and lay there too.. and I think she would get up early in the morning to move around bc I caught up moving around then.. anyhow since she was able to hatch her eggs she hasn't wanted to sit any.. I didn't know how to break her of the broodiness either. But letting her hatch did not end up working out so next I will have to try to break her of it.Thank you for sending. Local walmart only carries the calcium carbonate with D3 so I'll have to go to the drug store to find the citrate. I had her out free ranging yesterday and kept the coop locked up after the other hens were done laying. As soon as I opened the coop, she ran for a nest and didn't care which one it was. She managed to break into one where I had a large brick and box in front of it and was laying on the brick! lol She would not stay on the roost with the other ladies so we put a perch in a dog tote inside the coop with the others.
I want the other hens to be able to lay this morning, so I plan to move broody to a large wire crate in a cool spot in the run until they finish and then let her free range the rest of the day with them (with the coop closed). They were not going in to lay and I kept finding them in the yard I think because the broody hen was yelling at them when they tried so I don't want them to forget where to go to lay.
I'm glad you said she could still stay out and free range because I was under the impression from others that she needed to be crated for 3 days to break her of the broodiness. If she's still broody after that, what can be done? She seems to have it bad.