MY CHICKEN HAS GONE BROODY AND I DON’T WANT CHICKS

[4chickens4life]

Help! My buff Orpington chicken has gone Brody, but we have all hens, and don’t want more chickens anyway. How I do stop her from being broody without messing up her mentality so incase we want chicks in the future she can raise them. What do I do? Will taking the egg from her not broody but still make her want to have chicks? Please let me know.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Just stick her in a kennek and break her. Odds are she'll go broody again later

 

[turkey girl 0964]

Try putting frozen golf balls under her it should break her broodiness.

 

[Mamatomany123]

Sometimes ita as easy as just taking the eggs and taking her out of the nesting box. Most cases are not that easy. I would put her in a wire crate lifted off of the ground (to allow airflow to the belly) leave her there for a day or two. When you let her out and if she runs back to the nesting boxes then put her back. Continue until she roosts with the others and stays out of the boxes.

She will go broody again. Orpingtons are known for it

 

[4chickens4life]

Thank you!

 

[RosemaryDuck]

Help! My buff Orpington chicken has gone Brody, but we have all hens, and don’t want more chickens anyway. How I do stop her from being broody without messing up her mentality so incase we want chicks in the future she can raise them. What do I do? Will taking the egg from her not broody but still make her want to have chicks? Please let me know.

If you have all hens you have nothing to worry about. The eggs cannot hatch without a rooster. They need to be fertile. All she would be doing is sitting on a regular non fertile egg.

 

[Allsfairinloveandbugs]

Sometimes ita as easy as just taking the eggs and taking her out of the nesting box. Most cases are not that easy. I would put her in a wire crate lifted off of the ground (to allow airflow to the belly) leave her there for a day or two. When you let her out and if she runs back to the nesting boxes then put her back. Continue until she roosts with the others and stays out of the boxes.

She will go broody again. Orpingtons are known for it

I would leave her in a safe secure cage for at least 3-4 days. My experience with putting broody hens in "broody jail" is it takes at least 3-4 days for their hormones to go away. Your hen will likely give her broody "cluck cluck

 

[humblehillsfarm]

@aart has great advice which has been the only method proven to work for me with persistent broodies. Some of the other advice may work for broodies that weren't fully committed, but in general, broody jail is the way to go.

 

[CNJ]

If I see a hen sitting in the nest box in the evening, I take her out and put her on the perch. If you can catch them early, they snap out of it.

 

[Allsfairinloveandbugs]

Oops. Accidently hit post button. Anyway, your hen will likely cluck and pace back and forth in her cage for At Least 3 days. If u let her go back into a nest box to set before her hormones die away, you are back to square one. Photo below is not a good picture, but there are 17 broody hens here in their "jail." Yes 17, just this one week in july 2019. Most clucking away, & some pacing and demanding i let them out before their eggs get cold.