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[KateH]

My amber star has been broody twice this summer, this last time I thought if i just kept hoofing her off the nest it would stop but after 4 weeks I bit the bullet and bought a crate to cool her off. I set the crate up inside the run, popped her in overnight and left her - no problems. Came home from work the next day and she'd broken out! Managed to undo one of the doors and was back on the nest. I tied the doors with string to prevent her escape and left her again. Popped by at bedtime and there was a comotion going on. Snowy had managed to squeeze through the bars in the roof of the cage (they are large squares, about 10cm x 10cm), escaped and was heading into the nest for the night (string was also untied and lying on the run floor)! So, now I have something on the roof and a bungy keeping the door shut. Hopefully this will keep her in. I have never known a hen so intent on being broody and a hybrid too! I got hybrids for an easy life after having pekins and silkies but she's more trouble than any of the others have been!

[Hayleybug]

you could rename her houdini!

[Mars]

I had similar experience with a red hybrid "Isa brown", I took her to a broody cage. she nearly killed herself trying to get back to the nest "I never thought a hen can have such force" I put fertilized eggs under her "I have a rooster" and left her to hatch. then she was very proud mother

May hybrid hens don't get broody but when they do they do. may be the hormone kick that makes them broody is very strong.

[mrsatroy]

My amber star went broody for 16 weeks at the beginning of the summer I turfed her off the nest box a few times a day to make sure she ate and drank but other than that I just let her get on with it.