OK to wait out a broody hen?

[benjoycei]

My first post ever....Thank everyone for the info...I need to un-broody one of my Buff Orps....yeah, she's flat as a pancake... and mean!

 

[Wendy'sChicksRock]

Welcome and your going to love it here!!

 

[mamabigbird]

My EE Matilda is in week number three and a half of broody. We also have no roosters or a place to let her brood out some eggs. We remove her twice a day to get some air but she just goes squawking and grumbling back to the nest. She somehow gets the layers to come into her nest to lay their eggs or moves to the nest they've laid in. We take the eggs away each day but she just isn't giving up.
We don't have a space to cool her off in isolation so we're just going to continue to wait her out. She'll have to give up eventually, I hope.

 

[Wendy'sChicksRock]

They do... a little lighter but no worse for the ware....