Simple Tips to Break a Broody Hen

There are some simple tricks that can help get your hen out of her moody state and back to laying eggs.

Be sure to remove eggs from under the hen regularly and, if possible, pick her up and set her away from the nesting area while you collect them.

Create a separate environment for her using a small portable coop or crate. Removing her from the nesting boxes and eggs could help get her out of the broody mindset.

Putting her in a cage with a wire bottom, open to the air, can help cool her underside and disengage her from the broody feeling.

If using a wire-bottom cage doesn’t work or isn’t an option, some people slip a few ice cubes under a broody hen a couple of times a day, which can result in cooling her temperature and making her “nest” undesirable.

Similar to the ice cube method, some people have found success by simply dunking the hen’s underside in a shallow dish of cool water.

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