Need Help Working With Broody Hens

[nickrex98]

i need to know some ways to make a hen go broody, my hens are black australorps and Ameraucanas

 

[they'reHISchickens]

Ways to make a hen go broody do not exist.
It's a hormonal thing and it either happens or not. You can possibly coax it by putting in a nest of fake eggs or golfballs, but until the spirit moves a hen, you are out of luck.
However, on the bright side, if one goes, sometimes others follow and then you have an entirely different problem

 

[AnnK]

I keep 3 cochin banty hens. They are perpetually broody and are great little mothers will hatch any egg you set under them.

 

[lauralou]

they'reHISchickens :

Ways to make a hen go broody do not exist.
It's a hormonal thing and it either happens or not. You can possibly coax it by putting in a nest of fake eggs or golfballs, but until the spirit moves a hen, you are out of luck.
However, on the bright side, if one goes, sometimes others follow and then you have an entirely different problem

True.​