Broody???

[HeatherMo]

my chickens just started laying a couple weeks ago. My son went to get the eggs, and my golden laced Wyandotte was laying down, when he nudged her, she was sitting on an egg. I figured she probably just laid and he found her at that moment. Next day, same thing but she has 3 under her. Is she broody? She didn’t make a fuss about him taking the eggs. She’s not even quite 6 months old and it’s October and it’s starting to get pretty chilly.

 

[john_wrightson2003]

Sounds lke she is broody

 

[sourland]

If she is staying in the nest box during the night, she is broody.

 

[aart]

Some birds just like to lounge in the nest, before and after laying.
But they can also go broody any time of year.

These are my go to signs:
Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?
If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.