Repeatedly Broody - advice needed!

[EggWalrus]

oh, but I am attached to her!!-shes the sweetest hen, runs to me to pick her up and stroke her to calm her fluffy self down lol i really want to help her, i just dont know what else to do!! I cant get a roo-not allowed and frankly Im not interested. We're a girls only hen-club
Is it cruel to keep her if shes gona keep being perpetually broody? she has normal happy hen days, a few, and then shes back at being broody. sigh. HELP!

Since the beginning of Time (Chicken Time, that is) there have been hens that have been in a perpetual state of broodiness. They are special and help to guarantee the survival of the species. You may think there is something wrong with them, but they are in Bliss when they are rubbing their fluffy little butts on eggs. Since you aren't there 24/7 you don't see that they still have a good Ole Chicken Party. They get up and eat, drink, scratch, poop and do other chicken things.
I wouldn't worry, either give her a couple eggs she can hatch or give her some golf balls then slip some babies under her (pullets that you buy) and she'll be even happier. A month or so later after she has put them thru chicken school, she'll start to lay for about 2 weeks again. Then she'll get broody and you can do it all over again. It's natural that some hens spend 90% of their life broody. Let them do what God intended for them to do. I have also found that the quickest way to get a chicken hating neighbor to have a change of heart is to give them couple of little birds (not too young).

There is the Magic of Love in Chickens!

 

[EggWalrus]

I need ideas about where to get 1-2 chicks or fertilised eggs?

If you'll pay the postage, ill donate some eggs for the poor girl.

 

[MIchickenlady]

If you'll pay the postage, ill donate some eggs for the poor girl.

I posted a msg to you on your pg. Thanks so much for the generous offer!! I only really have coop space for 1 more hen, and I don't know how it would go to introduce 1 egg/chick? I'd need an education on hens hatching or raising chicks. I assume I'd hafto separate mama hen from the others until the baby chick is bigger...

 

[Bentkitn]

I had two silkie hens that would take turns being broody. As soon as one came out of it, the other would take her place. What I figured out as a snafu for Mother Nature was to grab them as soon as they started exhibiting broody behavior, bring them in the kitchen, fill the sink with cold water and float them! I made sure their fluffy butts and tummies were submerged and I kept them in for about 10-15 minutes. Then dry off with a towel and finish with a blow dryer that has a no-heat setting. I have always made sure to handle them so they submitted without much difficulty. After blow drying I kept them in the house in a small cage that was raised on legs high enough to get a small fan under. I put a towel on the bottom of the cage and directed the fan up under them. I gave them food and water and left the fan on the rest of the day and all night. That has always worked except once...I had to repeat the treatment. Cold...not cool water.