These chickens just showed up one day and decided to stay. They wouldn't let me pick them and it hurts to be pecked :) I did buy two babies and they let me still hold them but they have no interest in being mommies.
I did not know that they carry eggs to the nest! Mine are free range and not in a cage, so they have access to the barn to make nests or they are sneaky and hide their eggs.
I thought it was strange when my broody hen would get off the two eggs that we let her have, another hen would sit on the eggs until the other hen came back and get off the eggs. Now I finally had a look at the nest when they were off it and the other hen has been laying eggs, 5 so far. What...