Guinea spending the night on the nest

[mychickens]

Hello, this is my 1st spring with guineas and I have 1 who has spent the past 2 or 3 nights on the nest in the coop. I house guinea and chickens together and they all go in at night so I can close them up. 3 days ago she was around the nest alot throughout the day then on it that night. I have checked on her a few times during the day and she is off the nest, but then back on at night. Is she thinking about becoming broody?

 

[Dmontgomery]

Sorry, just saw your question and noticed nobody answered.
This is only my 2nd season with guineas so I don't know much either. I can tell you my guineas started checking out the chicken's nesting boxes about 2 weeks before they start laying their own eggs. From the little I have learned, guineas don't go broody until they have a large clutch of eggs. Sometimes it could be a couple dozen. Last September, our female didn't go broody until she had 17 in the nest. And even though the guineas actually got up inside the nesting boxes this year and sat down in them, they apparently were just trying them out. Ours free range all day. One guinea is laying her eggs in the woods and the other dug out her own nest in a different spot in the coop. Neither are in the nesting boxes.

 

[ludwing]

hellow

i would only say your guinea is broody only if she has got eggs in it a full clutch (6 to 15 or 19) and usually with the first time layers,getting off and in.
when a hen begin to lay, she cant count of how many eggs she has laid, but the instinct only tell taht she must become a mother and go broody. let her nest be, and see if she goes broody. but i only said if she got eggs in it. shes thinking of broodiness.