My Chicken just layed eggs

[Christi326]

My leghorn just layed eggs. She layed 12 of them. This is my first time having chickens and I do not know if they are babies or not. She stayed on top of them for about 30 mins but has now gotten up and left them. The last 4 nights she has been going into the neighbors coop to sleep. One of our roosters keeps trying to get on top of her so she keeps running there during the day then going into their coop at night. She tried to come over this morning and the same thing happened, but she ended up going to the side of our building to lay. I don't know what to do. Can I move the eggs and try to get another hen to lay on them? Would she stay with them even at night since she layed them on the ground and she wants to roost? Please help.

 

[starri33]

if you have a hen that is broody, you could take some of the eggs that the other has laid and put under her, but if she's not mating with the roo, you might as well turn them into a omelet as they will not be fertile. As for your hen going to the neighbors? you need to find a way to stop that or just give the hen to the neighbors since she seems to want to live there. Laying eggs are what a hen does naturally, not all hens will go broody. If your hen has 12 eggs, that means that either someone is contributing to the nest or she's laid them over a period of almost 2 weeks.

 

[Christi326]

I looked at the eggs with a light behind each one and it looks like 12 of them have an embryo in them and one does not. She is my first hen to lay eggs and I do not have a broody hen at the moment. My husband is getting an incubator at the moment. We are also going to build a nesting place for hens. We are going to fix up another coop as well to try to keep Natalee over here.

 

[starri33]

if you have development, that means she's been with the roo and she's been sitting on them, how soon is your incubator going to be set up? a nesting place is important for them, otherwise you are going to be hunting all over the yard for them..lol.. I'd take and mark the ones she has now to make sure that no one else is slipping new eggs in there on her and see what happens, I've just had my first broody, I would leave her 4 eggs, come out the next day and have 6 or more in there, the other girls were laying eggs in her nest, by marking them, I knew which one's she'd been sitting for a time on. if it's going to be a while on the incubator and you're not sure you can trust her to sit on them, You Tube and I am sure on here has posts about building your own.