My hen keeps leaving the nest

[Missnean]

My bantam hen has just started setting today and she won’t stay on the nest for more then 30 minuets at a time and leaves for 30+ minuets and I don’t know if she has an intention of coming back so I bring her back to the nest and it takes a while but she soon settles in again and then it repeats

 

[JacinLarkwell]

She's probably not broody yet then

 

[Quailophilic]

Is she first-time-broody???

 

[EggWalrus]

You can lead a whores to water, but you can't make her drink. You can stare up a mule's butt but cant tell how big a load she can pull.
And you can't make a hen broody if she just ain't feeling it yet.

 

[Quailophilic]

You can lead a whores to water, but you can't make her drink. You can stare up a mule's butt but cant tell how big a load she can pull.
And you can't make a hen broody if she just ain't feeling it yet.

Maybe she is just faking to be broody, to avoid laying eggs.

 

[Quailophilic]

My bantam hen has just started setting today and she won’t stay on the nest for more then 30 minuets at a time and leaves for 30+ minuets and I don’t know if she has an intention of coming back so I bring her back to the nest and it takes a while but she soon settles in again and then it repeats

Put some fake eggs in the nest if you feel like she is broody. When she will start sitting regularly like a good girl, then you can put some real eggs for hatching.

 

[Missnean]

Maybe she is just faking to be broody, to avoid laying eggs.

 

[Missnean]

Haha I honestly wouldn’t be surprised lol

 

[Missnean]

Put some fake eggs in the nest if you feel like she is broody. When she will start sitting regularly like a good girl, then you can put some real eggs for hatching.

Well she had been sitting on them but she leaves for hours at a time, and it has been up in the 80s so maybe they don’t have to sit on them for as long in the summer but I’m hoping at least one egg still hatches

 

[Missnean]

She's probably not broody yet then

So do u think she might just be faking it