Hen will not leave nesting box

[sgas2002]

I have 2 Easter eggers, an Olive Egger and an Olive Silkie mix. The Olive Silkie mix will not get off the eggs she lays. I have a pasta spoon that I use to move her around and scoop the egg out from under her. I put a plastic easter egg in nesting box to try to encourage them to lay now that they have started should I remove it? I have gone from 2 to 4 eggs a day to 1 because I can't get hen off nesting box. Any remedies?

 

[cherrynberry]

I have 2 Easter eggers, an Olive Egger and an Olive Silkie mix. The Olive Silkie mix will not get off the eggs she lays. I have a pasta spoon that I use to move her around and scoop the egg out from under her. I put a plastic easter egg in nesting box to try to encourage them to lay now that they have started should I remove it? I have gone from 2 to 4 eggs a day to 1 because I can't get hen of nesting box. Any remedies?

She is broody. You need to break her with a broody breaker to get her to "quit"

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/outdoor-broody-breaker.76592/

 

[sourland]

Sounds as if she has gone broody. Cage her away from the chosen nest site until she breaks broodiness.

 

[LizzzyJo]

Or you can give her some hatching eggs and watch the magic happen

 

[aart]

I have a pasta spoon that I use to move her around and scoop the egg out from under her.

Just pick her up and take her out of the nest.

 

[Clodill4rel]

Can I see a picture of your silky mix? I just hatched two from a lavender olive egger Roo and a white silky who is my broody hen right now. We got 6/6 today