How to stop a broody hen brooding?

Brisbanefowl · **Joined:** Sat Sep 29, 2012 8:27 pm **Posts:** 20

Hi, I'm very new here. Does any one known a good effective way to stop a hen from brooding ASAP?
Cheers,

julie at serenity · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:23 pm

put her in a cage with a wire floor...and raise the cage so that the floor has air circulating under it.......ofcourse make sure she has adequate food and water whilst in this cage...she will need to be in cage the for a few days...maybe a week....some are more easy to break their broodiness than others.
The idea is that with the circulating air...she can't get comfortable and keep her "nest" warm....

eggssell · **Joined:** Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:07 am **Posts:** 1

This is good to know because I have a silky hen that want to brood most of the year but if she finds an egg then sits like shes stuck like glue

Daniel H · **Joined:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:50 am **Posts:** 1

yes the wire floor cage worked for me with 1 very determined silky

oozcorpse · **Joined:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:15 am **Posts:** 2715

if necessary put ice in water under the cage so the temperature is colder
aim of the game is to reduce the hens body temperature to stop her brooding

julie at serenity · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:13 pm

soozorps wrote:

aim of the game is to reduce the hens body temperature to stop her brooding

that is exactly right

Fleur · **Joined:** Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:52 pm **Posts:** 24

eggssell wrote:

This is good to know because I have a silky hen that want to brood most of the year but if she finds an egg then sits like shes stuck like glue

LOL yesterday I had one broody Silky and this morning I have six, all sitting in the one nesting box on top of eachother! Gotta love the dedication and determination of these girls :D

Chickababe · **Posted:** Wed Oct 17, 2012 3:09 pm

Fleur,

I could just imagine a nest box full of silkies, all squeezed in together. They are so cute though, how they fluff themselves up and spread themselves out, tails in the air with a little shrill when you lift the nest box lid. I have a silkie sitting on 7 eggs at the moment and another silkie sitting on any of the other girls eggs that are laid in the morning. She is encouraged to hop on out, she's not too difficult to break. The broody on the eggs wasnt going to give up her spot on the woodshavings easily so we've made use of her cluckiness.

Moss · **Joined:** Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:04 am **Posts:** 2

soozorps wrote:

if necessary put ice in water under the cage so the temperature is colder
aim of the game is to reduce the hens body temperature to stop her brooding

Did not know this trick but I do get this trouble with my pekins so next time I will try this trick

Cheers

oozcorpse · **Joined:** Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:15 am **Posts:** 2715

Moss wrote:

soozorps wrote:

if necessary put ice in water under the cage so the temperature is colder
aim of the game is to reduce the hens body temperature to stop her brooding

Did not know this trick but I do get this trouble with my pekins so next time I will try this trick

Cheers

in the past I have had to use just ice below some of my daughters Pekins
turkeys are the worst tho they refuse to get off eggs sometimes. I use just ice with the turkeys every time = they are 1 part bird 99 parts stubborn when it comes to sitting on eggs and some have reported their turkeys sitting until they starve!

the colder it is under the stubborn broodies the better

OH!! :oops:

and Moss =

= I see this is your first post

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