Is my young hen broody?

[Isyovi]

For the last 3 days she has been laying on the same spot. When i try to move her she will stay there. Just now i looked and i saw that she had made a kind of nest, but she has never layed a egg before. Is this normal behaviour for a hen when she will start laying eggs or is she already broody? She is over 16 weeks.

 

[Buffbrahmasforever]

Does she hiss when you approach her? Is she making clucking noises? Are her feathers raised? Pictures might help.

 

[Isyovi]

Does she hiss when you approach her? Is she making clucking noises? Are her feathers raised? Pictures might help.

I will take pictures tomorrow as we put all the chickens in their coop but when she is on the same spot tomorrow i will! She does make some weird noise when you want to touch her and she pecks my hand sometimes. No hissing yet.

 

[aart]

Wonders if she's ready to lay and not quite ready yet.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/

Is she in the nest all night too?
Is she being bullied at all by older birds in the flock, and maybe 'hiding' in the nest?
Is she getting up to eat, drink, and poop?

Not likely that a bird who hasn't laid yet would go broody.
These are my go-to signs of a broody.
Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?
If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.

 

[Isyovi]

Wonders if she's ready to lay and not quite ready yet.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/

Is she in the nest all night too?
Is she being bullied at all by older birds in the flock, and maybe 'hiding' in the nest?
Is she getting up to eat, drink, and poop?

Not likely that a bird who hasn't laid yet would go broody.
These are my go-to signs of a broody.
Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?o
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?
If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.

Hi! She hasn't really gone back to that little nest she made so i think she was just laying comfortable there? I will use the link when they start laying in a few weeks time. Thanks for all the tips though, they are really helpful!