Every time I go to collect eggs, she is out of the nesting box and by her sister.One day she was still on her nest and I decided to show her one of the eggs, and she fluffed her neck feathers and hissed every time it came near her.Why would she do this?If the act doesn't stop, she won't be able to hatch her brother's chicks.(he has two hens with him at a friends house so im not breeding my hen and her brother, I just thought it wasn't fair that my hens would never get to hatch chicks)
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and Welcome To BYC! If she is out of the nest all the time, it sounds like she is not broody yet (or not going to be a good broody). Some hens will hiss and peck at you if you bother them while they are trying to lay an egg, even if they are not broody, it doesn't mean she hates the eggs, just that she doesn't like being bothered, she probably would have done the same thing to anything you put near her. Check out the Learning Center for some good articles on broody hens, ie 
