Need help broody chicken!

[Kacey I15]

Hi,
I have a chicken that has just started laying this year and she became broody about a week to a week and a half ago but she has no fertile/any eggs to lay on so I am trying to break her from her broodiness not sure how to do it she was laying in the nest so we made her get down and we blocked off nest so she couldn't get back up there then about an hour later she made a nest with straw in the corner of our coop and is now laying there please help on how else I should go at breaking her from her broodiness.

 

[SIMZ]

This is the best way I've found and it works and works pretty quickly. I use a wire dog cage and put it on blocks so it's off the ground. I put a perch through the wire, give her food and water, and leave her. It usually only takes a few days for her to be back to normal. If I find her back in the nest box she goes right back.

A google search of "Breaking a broody" or the same search on here will give you lots of ideas, too.

Good luck!

 

[Kacey I15]

This is the best way I've found and it works and works pretty quickly.  I use a wire dog cage and put it on blocks so it's off the ground.  I put a perch through the wire, give her food and water, and leave her.  It usually only takes a few days for her to be back to normal.  If I find her back in the nest box she goes right back. 

A google search of "Breaking a broody" or the same search on here will give you lots of ideas, too.

Good luck!

Thank you so much!!

 

[aart]

Ditto on the broody breaker crate.

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 watered down 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.

Nipple water bottle added after pic was taken.

 

[Kacey I15]

Ditto on the broody breaker crate. 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 watered down 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. Nipple water bottle added after pic was taken.

Great thank you! I will have to try this if she does not get out of it on her own today we seen she went out of the coop as we opened it so we shut the coop and are watching her closely hoping she we break her self from the broodiness!

 

[Kacey I15]

Ditto on the broody breaker crate. 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 watered down 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. Nipple water bottle added after pic was taken.

This is the best way I've found and it works and works pretty quickly. I use a wire dog cage and put it on blocks so it's off the ground. I put a perch through the wire, give her food and water, and leave her. It usually only takes a few days for her to be back to normal. If I find her back in the nest box she goes right back. A google search of "Breaking a broody" or the same search on here will give you lots of ideas, too. Good luck!

I wanted to try something I read on the Internet if you deep them in water and keep them in there 3-4 minutes it will break them right when they get out I honestly thought it was a weird idea and wouldn't work so I tried it before getting the cage out and doing all that and it actually worked I did it last night and she hasn't been in there sense so now u Guys have something new to try with a broody!

 

[aart]

Quote: Most folks thinks that's more cruel than the cage.....and not a good idea if it's cooler out.

 

[Kacey I15]

Most folks thinks that's more cruel than the cage.....and not a good idea if it's cooler out.

Well it being 75/80 out I think it's fine she sits in it by herself looked like she liked it actually

 

[SIMZ]

I wanted to try something I read on the Internet if you deep them in water and keep them in there 3-4 minutes it will break them right when they get out I honestly thought it was a weird idea and wouldn't work so I tried it before getting the cage out and doing all that and it actually worked I did it last night and she hasn't been in there sense so now u Guys have something new to try with a broody!

Good to know! Glad it worked for you!

 

[Kacey I15]

Good to know!  Glad it worked for you! 

Thank you!