If she's like my Minorca that went broody, she may not break until she gets chicks and even then still be obstinate. For two weeks I took eggs & removed her from the nest 4-6 times a day. It was down to buy a wire cage to suspend her over a fan to cool her bottom, or let her have some eggs - so I let her have some eggs. (Though I've recently read to put ice cubes in the nest, but that seems kind of harsh.) Even over a week after she hatched her chicks I caught her hopping up in a nest and rolling eggs under her! I had to isolate her and the chicks to keep her from trying to hatch more. I took her surviving chick last week (the one I thought vaporized - it was hiding in the coop foundation) and this week she is trying to go broody AGAIN! Poor girl is still rail thin from basically 5 weeks of brooding.I've got a buff that went broody! To my knowledge the only egg under her is a plastic one. I only have one roo that isn't old enough to fertilize anything yet... Is it ok to just let her sit there and steal the eggs as she lays them or should I make her get off her butt?
If you want to give her some fertile eggs, I get about a dozen a day. They're mutts - Silver Spangled Hamburg over Minorca, Delaware, Cuckoo Marans, EE, and Black Australorp. You can have your pick, as many as you want. My mom lives in Chesnee and I can drop them off next visit or if you're in Greenville/Taylors you can pick some up.
