Chicken moving eggs from one raised nesting box to another???

[Yardmom]

Your hen will sit a day or two after the first egg hatches. After that if there are more eggs she will abandon them. This is the main reason to mark the eggs. You need to remove any eggs that are added after the first day she set.

 

[BDutch]

Its best go put the water and food not very near to the mestbox. Best if she leaves her nest every day to eat, drink and poop. She might not feel the urge to do so if you give the feed in the nest box. Better not 100% layer but also chick feed or mixed grains.

Are the eggs coloured? It’s more difficult to see the moving ‘spider’ inside coloured eggs as in white eggs. Good luck.

 

[Possum-Pie]

Thanks, I was just a bit worried b/c I haven't seen her leave the nest at all, and I've heard of some hens that stop eating/drinking.
The eggs are pale brown. I'm a bit concerned also b/c I'm not seeing the huge mega-broody poop anywhere yet and it has been 7 days. She could be going up on the roost to poop...the pile under the roost is a mountain and we really should be clearing it out soon

 

[Garden Engineer]

One of my hens moved two ceramic eggs to the neighboring nesting box. The drop was nothing like what you posted above, but it was definitely a hen that moved them.

 

[ddmcb]

So I just had this happen! I opened the coop up this morning, Lita trying to be broody, so I moved her box outside into yard, fed as usual, no eggs at 7am. Come home at 2pm, and she has one of her eggs and an olive egg in her box. Box is about 3 inches off the ground, but my olive Egger usually lays in the coop on a shelf, not Lita's box. How did the olive egg get down to her box??

 

[BDutch]

So I just had this happen! I opened the coop up this morning, Lita trying to be broody, so I moved her box outside into yard, fed as usual, no eggs at 7am. Come home at 2pm, and she has one of her eggs and an olive egg in her box. Box is about 3 inches off the ground, but my olive Egger usually lays in the coop on a shelf, not Lita's box. How did the olive egg get down to her box??

Your Olive egger is helping Lita to build a nest filled with eggs.

 

[ddmcb]

That's amazing! I wish I had a nanny cam to set up in there to see! I found one olive egg on coop floor day before that was broken. I wonder if that was an attempt to move the eggs together also. First time time chicken owner, so it's all so fascinating to learn and understand. Lita is prone to broodiness from previous owner I was told but she's fairly new to me.

 

[BDutch]

I wouldn’t let a broody sit to breed in my yard because of predators.
Forced moving a broody is risky, she might stop and leave the nest. But maybe better. Hatching chicks in autumn is not a good time IMHO. I would break her and give her fertilised eggs in spring if she is definitely broody by that time.

 

[ddmcb]

I wouldn’t let a broody sit to breed in my yard because of predators.
Forced moving a broody is risky, she might stop and leave the nest. But maybe better. Hatching chicks in autumn is not a good time IMHO. I would break her and give her fertilised eggs in spring if she is definitely broody by that time.

Well I go out and collect eggs every day. I don't really let her get that far. I don't have a rooster, so I'm trying to prevent it entirely. I've only had her like this for a couple days. I kick her out of nest to eat, collect eggs. She's returned within 30 minutes though. Any suggestions appreciated. I'm so new at this

 

[aart]

Well I go out and collect eggs every day. I don't really let her get that far. I don't have a rooster, so I'm trying to prevent it entirely. I've only had her like this for a couple days. I kick her out of nest to eat, collect eggs. She's returned within 30 minutes though. Any suggestions appreciated. I'm so new at this

This is how I break broodies, works great!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/broody-breaking-ala-aart.77915/