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I have a buff orp that is almost 6 months old. She has been laying for about a month now, regularly.
Yesterday, she sat in the nesting box for 3 hours, and when we went out, she would puff all her feathers up and stick her backside in the air and trill at us. She doesn't peck at us, but definitely looks like she wants to. My daughter reached under her from the back and pulled out two eggs...hers and a previous layer. About ten minutes later she got out of the nesting box.
Today, she did the same thing with puffing up all her feathers. I reached under her and grabbed out one egg, but it wasn't hers. So I took out the fake egg as well and put it in the other nesting box. I went back three hours later (she had already been sitting for over an hour previously) and she had moved all the fake eggs from the other boxes into her box and had laid her egg. She puffed up and trilled at me, but didn't attempt to peck as I got all the eggs out. Later, she left the nesting box.
Is this just normal behavior, or is she starting to go broody? We don't want her broody, as we don't have a rooster
Yesterday, she sat in the nesting box for 3 hours, and when we went out, she would puff all her feathers up and stick her backside in the air and trill at us. She doesn't peck at us, but definitely looks like she wants to. My daughter reached under her from the back and pulled out two eggs...hers and a previous layer. About ten minutes later she got out of the nesting box.
Today, she did the same thing with puffing up all her feathers. I reached under her and grabbed out one egg, but it wasn't hers. So I took out the fake egg as well and put it in the other nesting box. I went back three hours later (she had already been sitting for over an hour previously) and she had moved all the fake eggs from the other boxes into her box and had laid her egg. She puffed up and trilled at me, but didn't attempt to peck as I got all the eggs out. Later, she left the nesting box.
Is this just normal behavior, or is she starting to go broody? We don't want her broody, as we don't have a rooster