Any tips to 'unbroody' them? I have one broody orpington about 5 months old (she just started laying for pete's sake...). I've so far just been shooing her off the nest and removing whatever eggs she is sitting on. She squawks about it, but I've just been checking the nest box often. She usually lays her actual egg mid-morning so I let her sit until about noon. I have another one (big fat Wyandott) who flies out of the coop and lays her eggs in my garden. I keep catching her and clipping her wings shorter, but her new name is "Live Free or Die."
