My first layer lays on floor and stays

[DiscoverwithDave]

Very good information.
Well, I think I will try tomorrow morning when the other go out to play. I will dress appropriately with protective goggles in case she goes all "Hulk" on me and take her outside for fresh air. I will remove the eggs and take the little angled board out an put a longer angled board so she has no place to sit. I will try to block the coop entrance for most of the day to keep her out with the others. If this were late winter or early spring I would have got fertilized eggs for her, but this is the start of winter. No chance.

Thanks for the compliment on my coop. Just built it this summer.
I put some videos on my YouTube channel if you want to see more.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT2-mLCrBupdpOfYYhPegDA

Here is a pic last night after the first snow.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Wow, I never new this could happen. Sure is a lot to having chickens. Forgive my lack of Chicken knowledge. I thank you for the step by step details. I am not sure if that will be possible for me. I just have the one coop and the snowy weather has begun. If I did get a cage not sure where I could put it. So she will just sit there and not eat and drink until she gets chicks?
Another question is if I was able to get a fertilized egg would it hatch and survival in winter. I don't even know where to get a fertilize egg. Do chickens even have chicks in winter? I only hear about chicks being born around Easter time in spring.
Thanks

Now that I look at your set up, I can see the issue with trying to fit in a cage. I normally keep my "broody breaker" in the run but I have a larger run and milder weather. For your set up the coop would be a better place for it but I doubt there's room in there.

An alternate would be to keep physically removing her from her preferred spot (and keep picking up eggs) which is what some people do but it may take longer.

If you do nothing she will eventually break on her own, though I don't consider that ideal as she will spend weeks brooding with nothing to show for it in the end.

Very pretty photo in the later post with the snowfall, but due to the weather I would not try to hatch chicks at this time.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

You can try and use one of the nest box spaces as a broody breaker. Remove all the shavings and comforts of a nest. You can even try putting something on the floor of the box to make it uncomfortable. Then block her in with food and water.

 

[aart]

I found two eggs in the pine chips of the coop floor a couple week ago

Wow, only laying for a couple weeks and already broody!!
Bummer.

Gratuitous broody story....
Had 2 pullets go broody last summer, broke pretty easy by tossing out of nest every time I saw them in there. One went broody again the next March and I let her hatch, weaned her chicks at 4 weeks, and proceeded to go broody every 2-3 weeks all summer, I finally I gave her away.

Not sure how to facilitate breaking her without the space for a breaker crate in coop.
You could put her in a crate in the run(remove that really cool half round structure for now), blocking wind and snow(which might be a good idea anyway), then let her roost with the others, blocking off nests an hour or so before roost time when you let her out of crate.

If you don't want her to hatch out chicks, best to break her broodiness promptly.
My experience goes about 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 with feed and water.

I used to let them out a couple times a day, but now just once a day in the evening(you don't have to) 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. Or take her out of crate daily very near roosting time(30-60 mins) if she goes to roost great, if she goes to nest put her back in crate.
Chunk of 2x4 for a 'roost' was added to crate floor after pic was taken.

 

[DiscoverwithDave]

Hey Thanks for the great info and picture!!!!! And thanks for the compliments on my snow pic. So I spent almost the whole day outside with her. Stayed tuned for how it turned out. I will try to post a video and story of my first time working with a chicken that goes "broody" I am not sure how to say this. I think I pronounce it wrong. I will try to post tomorrow evening. Thanks!!!!!!!

 

[DiscoverwithDave]

Sorry about the delay.
It took longer to edit/ make the video then to actually Break Broody. I lucked out on the weather over the weekend. It was in mid 40's and the snow melted. I decided to try to get "Red" outside all day. Then I was able to make some modifications to the Coop. Thank you for all the helpful knowledge you provided me!

If you want to watch the video on my YouTube Channel Discover with Dave.

Breaking Broody

 

[aart]

...video cracked me up.

Some good footage of broody(pronounced with long a) behavior.
Puffing up, the cluckcluckcluckcluckcluckcluck vocalizations, the agitation.
She left when you opened up the whole side of coop because she no longer felt 'safe'.
Locking her out for the day appears to have broken the spell...pullets can be easy to break, the cool weather probably helped as well as adding that board in there.
I predict she will go broody again, maybe not until spring tho, get that crate ready.

Love the green and purple chicken!

 

[DiscoverwithDave]

Thanks, I think I will look into some sort of Crate/ cage for any future situations. Thank you for taking the time to watch my video and give me your perspective.

 

[Ducklover2]

She just got up and walked away.

Great video.

 

[MasAhora]

I recently put a broody I wanted to break in a crate in my Dad's workshop (no space in the coop at the moment)... he wasn't happy and nor was she.
She 'broke' quickly and Dad was enthusiastic to build me a small enclosed containment run for future broodies... Win-win