broody chicken without eggs?

[ybbed]

My silkie about 1-1 1/2 year old keeps sitting like she is broody, but never sat on any eggs. Gets up once or twice a day runs, eats and then back to the nest. Any ideas?

 

[paddock36]

Yup sounds like she is broody to me. I just had a white Orphington do the same thing. I just hatched out some chicks in my incubator so I gave her 5 of them. You wouldn't even know that she didn't hatch them. She takes care of them really good.