Crazy chicken

[Carolyn23]

I have a polish chicken named Pineapple because of her orange and black feathers. Last year she started laying eggs in a attached area connected to the chicken house. Then winter came and of course she quit laying. Now spring is here and I am finding eggs in several different spots. We have 3 boxes we don’t use and my husband has the lids up and secure and today I saw her head in one. After she left I found 3 eggs in there. We have no roosters so being a mama is not an option. I just wondered if anyone else has any problems like this. I could just shut the door so she can’t get in there but then I don’t know where she would lay them as she flys over the fence and eats in the yard all day.

 

[Mylied]

I have a polish chicken named Pineapple because of her orange and black feathers. Last year she started laying eggs in a attached area connected to the chicken house. Then winter came and of course she quit laying. Now spring is here and I am finding eggs in several different spots. We have 3 boxes we don’t use and my husband has the lids up and secure and today I saw her head in one. After she left I found 3 eggs in there. We have no roosters so being a mama is not an option. I just wondered if anyone else has any problems like this. I could just shut the door so she can’t get in there but then I don’t know where she would lay them as she flys over the fence and eats in the yard all day.

I'm not sure what the problem is?

 

[SweetKeeks5]

If you want her to lay in certain spots, what one of my neighbours do is put a golf ball of ping pong ball where you want her to lay.
If that doesn’t work maybe hide or move things over the places where she usually lays until she gets used to it.

 

[aart]

After she left I found 3 eggs in there. We have no roosters so being a mama is not an option.

So be glad she's laying in a nest?
Gather eggs daily.

Do you think she's actually broody?
These are my go-to signs of a broody bird:
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.