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

[UpstateChickenDaddy]

So I have a broody mama. After much unhappiness I moved her and took her eggs once I knew there was no chance they were fertile. She continued to be broody and I noticed a decrease in egg production. Nope. Same eggs. She is just stealing them. She brought the others over to her before I even knew anyone else had laid them…three boxes and two steps away.

 

[BDutch]

So I have a broody mama. After much unhappiness I moved her and took her eggs once I knew there was no chance they were fertile. She continued to be broody and I noticed a decrease in egg production. Nope. Same eggs. She is just stealing them. She brought the others over to her before I even knew anyone else had laid them…three boxes and two steps away.

Are you sure the others didn’t start to lay in the broodies nestbox?
Bc that is what my chickens usually do.