Favorite chicken is having issues!!!

[jaxonann]

I had the maximum allowable number of hens per my city ordinance until 3 weeks ago when a bobcat killed half my flock. So I couldn't really give her any eggs to sit on, not do I have a rooster. After this tragedy I was able to purchase some hatch eggs to rebuild my flock.

Otherwise she appears quite well. No swelling/bloating or fluid.

She's been sitting for a month and you just now gave her eggs to sit on?
If she is broody, then she really should not even be laying eggs or making an attempt to lay eggs. I'm wondering if she is not well instead of being broody. Usually a broody will not leave the nest except one time a day to eat, poop and take a quick dust bath.

Any swelling/bloat or fluid in the abdomen?

 

[Kiki]

She was sitting on fake eggs for a month and now you have given her 'good' eggs to sit on to hatch?


I'm not so sure that's a good idea for her health.
Broody hens don't eat well and their health Can deteriorate quickly for sitting for 2 months.

 

[jaxonann]

She has been eating and drinking well. As for her behavior with the wooden eggs she had been sitting on them for a few hours during the day and all night long. I had one wooden egg in each nesting box and somehow every egg ended up in the main box and she was constantly tending to them. She would get up and free range for a few hours during the day when her sisters were using the nesting box and would go back in when they were done. Since this last Saturday she has been acting (what I would consider) more typically "broody"; 20+ hours in her nesting box. This afternoon the other hens were just sitting next to her while they were laying. She was out running around picking at bugs this morning when I found her with the egg issue and was eating and drinking with her sisters this evening.