[Chicken_Lover]

Hello, one of my Hens has become Broody, she has been sitting in the nesting box for 3 days now, last time I managed to check (wearing a goalkeeper glove since she pecks at you a lot) there was one egg under her. How do I deal with her since all she does is sit on the eggs under her?

[grumpydad]

you have several choices,
1. remove the eggs from under her and let the broodiness run its course, often about 3 weeks.
2.dunk her rear end in very cold water, which is supposed to cool her down and break the brood cycle.
3. stand her in a mesh cage, with food and water so she has nothing to get comfortable on.
4. get some fertile eggs for her to hatch.
5. keep turfing her out of the nest box whenever you can.

we have a wyandotte that has just gone broody, we leave her till all the others have laid , then turf her out of the coop and shut the pop hole so she cant get back in, she is a real turkey, fluffing up, but harmless.

[AL Hathaway]

we just had this run of broodyness with a pekin named honey we did not let her get to sit long on eggs as she tryed to hide them all over her little puffed up body and my husband called her his nemesis as they were always fighting with each other he would take her eggs she would peck and screech at him but then he would pick up the angry fluffball and stick her bum in a bucket of Cold water and shut her out of the coop. now she just grumbles to herself and anyone who will listen.

[jinty1911]

I don't know if the bum dunking really works, mine were broody and quite happily sat in 6inches of snow during the winter when I moved them out of the henhouse.  I just kept moving them everytime they sat down.  I think if you have a very broody hen there is not much you can do apart from let her sit on eggs or go with the flow.   

[Chicken_Lover]

Thank you, this post wasn't for my hen it was for my friend's hen.