my cochin has been brooding for three months

[fancynancycoop]

how to break this trend of 3 month trend of brooding?

 

[trailrider330]

Hopefully you can find a lot of helpful information and things to try by searching "how to break a broody hen". I had a hen that went broody for almost 6 weeks and the only thing that eventually worked was locking her out of the coop every day for about a week. That finally seemed to do the trick. Simply kicking her out of the nest repeatedly and dunking her in cool water never seemed to do the trick. The other thing you can try is to let her sit on some eggs or stick some day old chicks under her at dusk if you are open to having more chickens.

 

[fancynancycoop]

Thanks...I think I need to lock her out of the coop...maybe in separate box

 

[aart]

Have you let her hatch anything out?
What have you done to try and stop her?

If you break them as soon as you know they are broody it goes much easier I think, so not sure what worked for me will work in your case but:
My experience went like this - After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest, I put her in a wire dog crate with smaller wire on the bottom but no bedding, set up on a couple of 4x4's right in the coop and I would feed her some crumble a couple times a day.

I let her out a couple times a day and she would go out into the run, drop a huge turd, race around running, take a vigorous dust bath then head back to the nest... at which point I put her back in the crate. Each time her outings would lengthen a bit, eating, drinking and scratching more and on the 3rd afternoon she stayed out of the nest and went to roost that evening...event over, back to normal tho she didn't lay for another week or two.

 

[trailrider330]

Have you let her hatch anything out?
What have you done to try and stop her?

If you break them as soon as you know they are broody it goes much easier I think, so not sure what worked for me will work in your case but:
My experience went like this - After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest, I put her in a wire dog crate with smaller wire on the bottom but no bedding, set up on a couple of 4x4's right in the coop and I would feed her some crumble a couple times a day.

I let her out a couple times a day and she would go out into the run, drop a huge turd, race around running, take a vigorous dust bath then head back to the nest... at which point I put her back in the crate. Each time her outings would lengthen a bit, eating, drinking and scratching more and on the 3rd afternoon she stayed out of the nest and went to roost that evening...event over, back to normal tho she didn't lay for another week or two.

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I have used the crate as well, I just did not have it available to me this last time because it was already being used as a "hospital" for one of my other hens. Hopefully you can find the trick that works for you.