Perpetually broody bantam Cochin troubles

[TopazMaster91]

Okay, I'll try to make this short- All my bantams have been going broody lately, but we do not have the room or desire to have a billion chicks running around; we let one have one chick not too long ago, and we have another sitting on five eggs right now in a separate, small pre-built coop.
We are at capacity with this! However, we have a frizzled bantam cochin who has been broody for at LEAST a solid month, even though we keep taking her eggs, and she won't leave the main coop except maybe once a day. The other chickens keep "donating" eggs to her, and she just won't break out of it; we don't have room for a cage in the coop to break her, and I'd be worried about keeping her in a cage in the run...Any suggestions? We can't block off the nest boxes because all the other chickens would go ballistic and there would be eggs everywhere in the run, I'm sure.
Any help is appreciated!
Edit to say: It wouldn't be such a big problem if she wasn't also losing weight, losing tons of feathers, and if it weren't in the mid-high 90's every single day lately.

 

[Starburst]

Okay, I'll try to make this short- All my bantams have been going broody lately, but we do not have the room or desire to have a billion chicks running around; we let one have one chick not too long ago, and we have another sitting on five eggs right now in a separate, small pre-built coop.
We are at capacity with this! However, we have a bantam cochin who has been broody for at LEAST a solid month, even though we keep taking her eggs, and she won't leave the main coop except maybe once a day. The other chickens keep "donating" eggs to her, and she just won't break out of it; we don't have room for a cage in the coop to break her, and I'd be worried about keeping her in a cage in the run...Any suggestions? We can't block off the nest boxes because all the other chickens would go ballistic and there would be eggs everywhere in the run, I'm sure.
Any help is appreciated!
Edit to say: It wouldn't be such a big problem if she wasn't also losing weight, losing tons of feathers, and if it weren't in the mid-high 90's every single day lately.

Hi, not sure if you have time to do this, but what I do is take my broody chickens and place them on the ground outside of the run, where they can't get back to the coop. I have food and water for them, and then I stay with them for at least half an hour, making sure they eat and drink and run around. I take out all the eggs, and some people recommend putting ice packs under the hen to get her off. Here are a couple of links for breaking a broody hen:
https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/6-ways-to-break-a-broody-hen/
https://www.gardenbetty.com/how-to-break-a-broody-hen/
https://www.fresheggsdaily.blog/2012/01/so-youve-got-broody-hen.html
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-to-break-a-broody-hen.65588/
I wouldn't use the cage until the last case scenario, but it does work. I hope you can break that broody hen!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

You could see if someone would be interested in buying some chicks from you.

 

[TopazMaster91]

So tonight, based on @Starburst 's advice, I picked up Yuki and stuck her outside, food and water included. Things went okay for about 10-20 minutes, then she started alarm calling and running around the outside of the run trying to get back in, lol. I felt bad and gave in. Wham, right back to the nest box. Any other ideas? XD

 

[Starburst]

Have you been repeatedly removing her from the nest?

 

[TopazMaster91]

Have you been repeatedly removing her from the nest?

The chickens do that for me on occasion, but she always goes back- eggs or not. I always make sure to remove any eggs in the coop, I check twice a day. She is PERSISTENT! I'm hoping it won't come down to cage-in-the-run, but something has got to give, she's literally bare of feathers in a few places, definitely has lost weight, it's been over a month, and she is showing no signs of stopping. I'd just let her have a damn chick if we had the room! But with the one chick we gave another broody a while back, and the other current broody sitting on five eggs in our only other tiny, pre-built maternity ward/emergency coop, we just can't let her have any. I'd love to, trust me, but we can't :/.

 

[Starburst]

Sounds like you have a very stubborn chicken. You may just have to put her in the cage for a couple of days with food, water, and a roost for her own good before her health depletes. It's my least favorite method, but it works well.