Gone Broody

[baasanders]

Morning Folks!! I am fairly new to the chicken world, and my hens are at the age of egg laying now. I have a RIR that keeps laying her eggs in the duck coop. Well last night, my daughter went to put all the birds up, and she was in the duck coop on her egg. She just assumed the hen got in there and couldn't fly back out the duck pen, so she picked her up, and took her to the chicken coop. I'm wondering if she's trying to go broody. This is probably a dumb question, but what's the best way to tell?

 

[Duck_life]

Broody hens make clucking sounds, they normally get cranky and bullied by the other chickens. I've never had a broody chickens so I'll leave you with the experts.

 

[chickens really]

Sometimes they like spending time on a nest after they lay and doesn't mean she is Broody. If she begins to brood she will stay on the nest and if you try to move her she will raise a ruckus and remain laying for a few minutes after you move her.
They stop laying eggs. They will be on the nest more than off.

 

[aart]

These are my go-to signs that a bird is broody:
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.

Your bird may be broody, or thinking about it, or she may just not have gone back to the other coop and the nest was the best place to sleep.
Are there roosts in the duck coop?