My pekin has been laying for 9 months...she lays...I take some eggs for incubating- she keeps laying...she sits eventually- The eggs keep getting broken- so i take the last one or two to get her off the nest. Then a week later she is laying again- and the whole cycle continues. I decided a month ago just to let her do her thing now- No more taking eggs for the incubator...she is still laying every day- but no sign of broodiness now. Last time she sat was over a month ago- and she was only on the nest for two days beofre a huge hail storm hit and scared her off the nest- She was still laying then... and has continued laying but with no signs of wanting to sit on them.