Ruby remains broody

[Sandra Verbreyt]

Heeelp.
Is it safe for a chicken to remain broody for nearly 4 weeks. I tried everything but she refuses to snap out of it. She is eating and drinking and when locked out of the coop she walks around but she has free range of the garden and so after a while she just snuggles down in the middle of the lawn and broods. Will this long period of broodniness do her any harm and will she eventually snap out of it? Is it normal for a peep to stay broody for so long?

 

[aart]

Are you sure she's broody and not ill?
These are my go to signs:
Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?

I asked about your cage in your other thread, but you did not respond:

What kind of cage and how was it set up and how long did you leave her in there???

I tried everything but she refuses to snap out of it.

Have you tried this?:
My experience goes about like this: After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest (or as soon as I know they are broody), 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 or run with feed and water.

I used to let them out a couple times a day, but now just once a day in the evening(you don't have to) 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. Or take her out of crate daily very near roosting time(30-60 mins) if she goes to roost great, if she goes to nest put her back in crate.
Chunk of 2x4 for a 'roost' was added to crate floor after pic was taken.

 

[Sandra Verbreyt]

Yep she is like a fluffy pancake and yep she cluck clucks back to the nest like a ticking time bomb. I will try the dog cage again . My cage is just like yours although I did not raise it off the ground so this time I will have it on bricks. Thankyou for your advice