I haven’t had a rooster for about a month so no chance of that unfortunately. It figures one of them would go broody as soon as the weather turns and the cockerel is goneBut no I am pretty sure she’s just gone though I have no idea the exact mechanism.
My chicken came back. Which makes me think she is sitting on duds out in the woods somewhere and I will never find the clutch.I guess that’s the risk I took letting a game chicken run amok haha
Since hens can store a rooster's sperm for several weeks, she might have laid a few fertile eggs. Chickens are baffling in this.
So glad she came back!