- Apr 29, 2011
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This is Wigging. She's been sleeping in this nest for weeks and in the last several days was getting up later and later (10ish) and on Sunday was in bed by 7. When I came home yesterday and she was on the nest at 5:30 and pecked at me instead of running when I looked for eggs I jumped for joy, pronounced her broody and prepared a cage. After dark I lifted the nest out of the nest box with her still in it and slipped it into the cage in the corner of the coop. That didn't seem to disturb her in the least. However, this am she had abandond the golf balls in her nest and was looking to get out. Since there is food and water in with her I didn't let her out. I am worried I may have broken the brood, though.
I felt like I needed to move her though since she picked the most popular nest and the nest box is recessed from a shelf 3' up.

