Hen being broody?

[ConchRepublic]

We heard an egg song today so I went out to check on the girls. I walk in and see our white orp sitting in the nest box. This excited me because she's been free loading. Well my excitment was overcome by laughter when I noticed that it wasn't an egg she was sitting on... It was our buff orp who was trying to lay an egg. Needlessly to say the buff orp wasn't to happy... She kept pecking at the white orp to get her off and growling at her. I shooed the white orp off. The buff orp fluffed herself then calmed down and looked happy to just sit there.... The the white orp came back and ploped right down on the buff's back again.

Could the white or be getting broody? Or maybe just wanting to annoy the buff?

 

[Red&Yellow]

It's always possible!! But I think more realistially your white orp wants THAT nest box, and dosen't give a fig that buff is in there already.

Do your have plenty of nestboxes? Sometimes they'll do that even with plenty of boxes. Not much to worry about, just chickens being silly!!

 

[ConchRepublic]

Red&Yellow :

It's always possible!! But I think more realistially your white orp wants THAT nest box, and dosen't give a fig that buff is in there already.

Do your have plenty of nestboxes? Sometimes they'll do that even with plenty of boxes. Not much to worry about, just chickens being silly!!

We have 3 made from milk cartons with hay... but they all use the same one. weird part is everytime we clean out the nest boxes they choose a new one. Last one was the farthest left, now they all go in the farthest right.​

 

[Ridgerunner]

If she stays on the nest overnight instead of roosting, she is broody. Otherwise she is just being a chicken.

Mine do much the same. Seven hens, two nest boxes. They all seem to want the same one, but which one that is varies.

 

[ConchRepublic]

Well apparently the white orp won out. The buff is now using another nest box lol, so both are sitting in there and growl at me when I try to get the eggs. Though the white doesn't care too much when I pull them out from under her.