help first time bantam hen is broody.

[mariacisneros25]

Hi. I have 2 year Old bantam hen. Its her first year she is brooding her eggs. She's been laying on them for over a months. She started with 2 eggs and now she has 5. So that means she laid 3 more. Her first 2 eggs never hatched. What do i do

 

[mirandaleecon]

Hi. I have 2 year Old bantam hen. Its her first year she is brooding her eggs. She's been laying on them for over a months. She started with 2 eggs and now she has 5. So that means she laid 3 more. Her first 2 eggs never hatched. What do i do

Do you have other hens that have access to where she is sitting? If so, they are the ones laying in her nest. Either that, or she isn't actually broody. I had to actually give my hen some chicks for her to stop being broody, she sat for about 6 weeks before that. Maybe you could try to find someone who has day old chicks to give to her. Just make sure they are less than a couple days old, the older they are, the harder it will be to get her to accept them.
Or you could just wait and see if the other 3 hatch but if they were laid recently, they may still have a couple weeks. Have you candled them? Do you know if they are growing?
Final option could be to try to break her broodiness, I haven't done this so hopefully someone else can chime in on that...

 

[mariacisneros25]

We do have one more hen that we recently got so our white one can stay broody. Before she would only stay broody for 2 weeks and then leave her nest. Now she actually stays there. And this time she didn't nest in the coop but in between some aloe Vera plant. She comes out only to eat so we didn't get a chance to candle them. Th3 new hen does not get near her nest because they don't get along.