any help with why she has stopped laying??

[claireylow]

We brought a broody hen with chicks at the end of april, about 2 weeks ago she started to lay eggs again which was lovely, however in the last couple of days she has completly stopped, and she is sitting in the corner looking very sorry for herself, however looks very healthy. I was just wondering if there was any reason why she may have stopped laying?

 

[sourland]

If she is sitting in the corner where she generally lays her eggs, she has gone broody again.

 

[claireylow]

she is just sitting in the corner on her own, we brought her as a broody chicken so we have never seen her broody before, sorry to sound stupid but do they not need an egg to become broody and when we got her last time with her babies she was flat as a pancake, she is just sitting normally at the moment

 

[sourland]

They will go broody without eggs being present, but they will do so in the area where they were laying.

 

[claireylow]

she has just found a lovely dusty corner of their outside enclosure, but she does not stay there continously for the whole day, she does wander round a little as well, is there anything we can do?