How do you stop your chickens from going broody?

Answer 1

Broodiness is an inheritable trait. I have heard thata few years back people could expect 1 in 25 hens to be broody but that number is now more like 1 in a 100. So many hens come from a few big breeders now, and are bred hard for egg laying and since broodiness interrupts the laying cycle, broodiness is bred out. It is probably easier to find a higher proportion of broody hens in a home farm that has been breeding its own chicks for several generations. If you get a broody hen save her chicks and try to select it back in.

Answer 2

you cant until they are no longer broody. the only way to make them un-broody is to Separate the chicken from the rest of the flock in a place with no nestbox or dark corner to hide. Hopefully she won't be broody within 3-4 days. On the other hand if you allow her to stay in that nest all day and night she will trigger broodiness in other hens.

Answer 3

If you have an incubator she's a keeper. I give my brood hen my newly hatched peeps shells and all. ( i do this at night). at about day 2 she takes them from her nest to feed. She raises them as her own until she goes back

to laying.. This time I let her sit her unfertile eggs, when they didnt hatch she left the nest and has gone back to being a normal laying hen.. (drats) now I have to find a new foster mom.. Let your hen do her thing, sometimes we all

like to sleep on the couch..

Answer 4

Typically, you'll notice that one of your hens is going broody when she exhibits the following behavior:

• Staying on an egg or eggs for some time after they're laid
• Hissing at people who try to move her or collect the eggs
• Staying in a crouching position after being moved off a nest

If a hen is broody, she can be used to incubate fertile eggs and she will then brood, or care for, the chicks when they hatch. Make sure she has a caged area away from other chickens, safe from predators, with food and water right by the nest. Once you're sure she's broody, put your hatching eggs under her and let her do the rest.

Answer 5

Yes. You can do this by leaving eggs in the nest and not collecting them for a few days.

Answer 6

You cannot stop them from becomming broody. That's natural although if you let it have the run of your yard for a few weeks instead of living in the pen it will eventually go of being Clucky.