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I'm fairly confident they're broody. They are definitely cluck hens and they do lay flat in the nest and fluff up when I left them up to get eggs - the other hens lay in the same box. They're over the pecking me when I get the eggs from them - I've been disrupting them nightly for almost 6...

Okay. Thank you. [They have a 30ft x 20ft outdoor pen but I can't free range them because my vegetable garden (not fenced) is just outside their door and they make a mess out of my veggies (I actually haven't let them roam at all this year, including when they were actively laying). I don't...

I have 8 Rhode Island Reds that were laying 7 eggs a day until about 6 weeks ago. Two of them are broody so I don't expect them to lay but rest seem to have given up as well. I'm getting 2 maybe 3 eggs a day. At first I just chalked it up to the girls needing a break but it's going on 6 weeks...

A bat. My husband was working on our shed a couple years ago and came across a bat sleeping under one of the boards. He freaked out and threw it into the pen with the hens and they got a hold of it, fought over it and ate before the bat could fly away. The poor bat...

I just read about plastic boxes in another post. Sounds like a way easier way to go. Where do you find such a container? This is the 2nd year I have a hen (probably the same one) go broody in the spring and it's the 2nd year in a row I've had other hens invading her box and smashing her eggs...

I'll try it. Thank you.

I put 6 eggs under a broody hen earlier this week and found 2 of them broken under her this morning and one of them in an adjoining box. I'm pretty sure my other hens are the culprits and I tried moving her and the remaining eggs tonight to another location outside of the coop but she wouldn't...