Solitary confinement.

So...our eight new chicks are doing well and Dou-mu is looking after them well. She took them outside today for the first time.Long-mu, however, is also broody and we have been removing her, many times, daily from the nesting box. I found her yesterday sitting on one of Dou-mu's chicks and today she was getting a little aggressive towards them in the chook shed, chasing after and pecking them.I waded into the shed and picked her up and carried her out but had nowhere else to put her safely so had to put her back in the pen.Using the box that 'Velociraptor' the chipper machine came in I made another cage this afternoon and Long-mu has been sent to Solitary Confinement.

Apparently removing broody hens from the pen for a few days into a box without straw but with food and water should cure them of their 'broodiness.'We will see.She was most indignant about the whole thing.