I'm struggling with a chicken who is broody and won't snap out of it!

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After my last thread, my broody hen came to her senses after about 3 days, we out her in a separate cage in the day and let her back in with the flock at night and she gave up her dream of hatching eggs fairly quickly.

A week later I have another broody but she's very stubborn, it's been over a week now of solitary confinement in the day and I've cooked her down in cool water but still every morning she has to be removed from the nest. The others have started laying on the roosting bars because she won't let them in there and my egg count has gone from 4 a day to lucky if we get one! I'm worried the others will get egg bound, although I read the excessive heat may be stopping the others laying.

Does anyone else have any advice and is broodiness a flock thing, will the other 2 follow suit and get broody after she's finished with her spell?

As much as I'd love to let them hatch a clutch, I already agave a full eglu and no space for anymore (and we don't have the disposition to dispatch any cockerels)

I cage mine night and day for three days. I pop the cage in the shed overnight but put it in the run with the others for company (through the cage bars) during the day. Your broody is settling into the nest at night so not breaking the habit. You need to be tougher!

Broodiness is catching.

The heat wont be helping. I use a metal dog crate, with no tray, up on bricks when I get a broody, that way they have air all around and i can push a bar through for her to perch on. I put a water bowl and food in for easy access and leave her in there day and night.

I second the broodiness is contagious. If you don't segregate they'll all end up broody.

Ok, I've put the broody buster cage (dog cage with no tray, up on bricks!) right next to the coop, so they don't forget her. She's going to stay in there for the next few days until she snaps out of her broods, she's really thin and her underside is bald.

I'm hoping with a couple of days she'll start picking up.

Did this work for you? Mine has been broody for over a month. I have had a dog crate next to the coop for a few days with her in it. I just let her out and she was straight back to the nesting box! Will she ever snap out of it?!

I have the same problem. I kick her off the nest in the morning and shut the door to the eglu but she just makes a hollow in the wood chip in the run and settles in there. I thought maybe I should put an egg under her so it will go off and she will maybe then give up.
The other two aren't laying either as they were both broody and sat together on fertile eggs that I bought till one hatched and now they are both still mothering the chick (now eight weeks old) and still not laying.
I have given up on ever having an egg again and started buying them.

Another one with the same problem. We usually remove her to the broody cage (it's always the same hen - Barry as it happens!)and leave her there for at least 2 days. She can see the others from her cage and this is usually enough to snap her out of it.

She has finally come out if it. Now she is losing feathers at speed!

Mines come out of it now too, must be the colder weather and the non-stop rain. Even got an egg again today.