Another Broody

I have a persistant broody bantam, she goes in a wire cat basket with food & water & then I raise it off the ground with bricks so the air flows round! I usually put a sheet of newspaper underneath to make clearing up easier! On the 2nd/3rd day, as mine free range, I shut off the coop once the others have laid & let her out. She fusses around the coop for a while ,then gives up, if not she goes back in the ' naughty basket'. Should only take 2/3 days to put her off.

Good Luck

My OH made this for our broody coucou Marans. Poor Margot spent hours in this thing before she finally stopped being broody. We called it the 'sin bin'. We only put her in it until the other 3 had laid and then we closed the pop hole on the coop and let her out. She would fuss round the coop going up and down the ramp and giving us 'evils', but eventually she would go out with the other girls. We had to do this for over 3 weeks though before she finally stopped brooding and came back into lay!!
Here's a photo of what we made.
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=93602.15

I have a Pekin banty who has just stopped being broody, been going on since end of April.
I tried putting her into a wire dog crate, on bricks with just the mesh for her to sit on. I put this inside the secure pen and left her in there all day and all night.At about 1.30am the PIR light near our bedroom came on and I got out of bed, looked out of the window and there was a fox peering at her through the mesh of the pen  the hen house and pen are near our bedroom (bungalow)
I yelled at it and it shot off over the 6' fence.
Well that was the end of her staying out all night even though she was quite secure, it certainly unnerved us. Ive never seen foxes in the garden until we began keeping chickens!!
She has eventually stopped being broody but is now moulting like mad. Still not laying and hasn't done since April but am hopeful that when she finishes moulting she will start to lay again.