Golden Laced Maran nesting for 4+ hours. Afraid of egg binding in future

[ErinMaria]

So this is my GLMs egg from today. She nests around 11ish and by 430 she's still in there. Probably the last 2 weeks but sporadically. I noticed her tail pumping once. But then a bit later she was out and about. Her eggs are streaky often and today is gritty. I realize this is calcium or whatever but we watched her come out of the nest and when we checked the egg it was dry. Could this be a sign that she's going to later develop a bound egg? How can I help her to prevent this?

 

[HKG]

@aart @Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock @azygous

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I don't really know if that would be a sign of future egg binding.
Is she getting picked on?
I really don't know what you can do for her - see that she's eating a nutritionally balanced feed like layer feed, has oyster shell free choice, that lice/mites are not an issue, etc.
Feel her abdomen to see if she's a bit fatty/heavy bottomed, if so maybe cut down on treats.

 

[ErinMaria]

Thanks for the response. I think she was just broody. So we have been making sure to get all the eggs collected each day.

 

[aart]

I think she was just broody.

Was or still is?
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.

 

[ErinMaria]

Was or still is?
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?

She was like that for a while. She's very young and only started laying late last year. And yes she stayed inside most of the day flattened out like a pancake over everyone else's eggs. She left to eat and drink and went back in. She seemed to have stopped though. Strange.

 

[aart]

She was like that for a while. She's very young and only started laying late last year. And yes she stayed inside most of the day flattened out like a pancake over everyone else's eggs. She left to eat and drink and went back in. She seemed to have stopped though. Strange.

But not at night?
She may have been hiding?