That makes sense. Since mine isn't collecting eggs to sit on, hopefully I won't have that probably with her. I'm going to give her three or four eggs from the other ladies and see if she sticks with them. I purposely got orpingtons because I want them to brood, so breaking her just because she's...
I don't know how many eggs she's layed. I have six ladies, one started laying 8 weeks ago, next was 7, then 6, etc. I can't tell them all apart. She has all the symptoms of broodyness, except laying eggs. She's been sitting in the nest almost constantly since last Friday. The couple of times...
My orpingtons are only six months old, and have been laying for between 2 and 8 weeks. One of my ladies seems to be broody already, but she's not laying any eggs. She's only sitting on the fake egg in the box. What do I do now? I don't mind her brooding, should I give her eggs from my other...