- May 10, 2014
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I have a hen that hatched a brood about thirteen weeks ago. For the last seven weeks this hen has been doing the egg laying thing (unfertilized). For the first four weeks, she laid an egg every one to two days. I gathered every one of them. Then for this past three weeks this hen acts like she's gone broody, sitting in the nest two to three days at a time. When I see that she has left the nest to eat/drink, I check the nest - no egg. This hen thinks she's accomplishing something. I have another hen in this same coop doing an egg a day like she's supposed to do. The first hen ever so often uses the second hen's nest - no egg. What do you do un-brood the first hen? What is going on with the no-egg thing?