Need advice on a crazy broody

[JosieChick]

Hi all,

I have a gold laced wyandotte who went broody several days ago and has been sitting on unfertilized eggs. After a few days of sitting I thought I would get her some eggs. SO the fertile eggs are on the counter in the kitchen and I moved her last night to a hutch outside of the coop so she could set and hatch her eggs without trouble from the other girls. The other hens have already laid eggs in the nest on top of her and one of the brahmas broke one of the eggs she was sitting on by climbing in there with her.

She was sitting nicely this AM when I went out to feed but went nuts when I let the other girls out into their run and was frantically pacing inside the hutch.

I covered the hutch up hoping the darkness would calm her down and she would go back to sitting but now she is sitting next to the nest.

My coop is tiny as it is and I hate to put a huge cage in there and leave the others with no room.

Does anyone have any good suggestions or should I just bite the bullet and put the vari kennel in the coop and let the other girls deal for three weeks? Thanks!

 

[hokankai]

I put our pen in the coop, right underneath the poop board. However the girls get out often so they don't mind the lack of floor space. Does she have her fertile eggs yet? If she recently went broody she might not be very serious about it yet. If you move her, do it at night and away from the other girls so that she can't see them and get distressed. However the first thing that needs to be done is have her get attached to her eggs.

I tried moving my BO to our covered dog run before I gave her eggs and she wouldn't have it. But after letting her sit in the nest for a couple days with her eggs and moving her at night she's been a trooper and doesn't care if the other girls are there with her or not.