Need advice

[Softball_mama]

I have a hen that was laying on eggs and somehow all her eggs have broken and she has no eggs left and it has been about two weeks and she is still laying in the same spot like she waiting on the eggs to hatch but there is no eggs.. what should I do?

 

[aart]

How long had she been broody and setting before the eggs broke?
Did eggs break all at the same time?
Any broken eggs should be removed immediately.
I check the nest and eggs every couple days.

 

[Softball_mama]

She has no eggs left and it’s been at least two weeks since they all broke. Idk how to get her to realize that she has no eggs.

 

[aart]

She has no eggs left and it’s been at least two weeks since they all broke.

Did you clean her and the nest up?

Idk how to get her to realize that she has no eggs.

Break her broodiness.....


My experience goes about like this: After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest (or as soon as I know they are broody), I put her in a wire dog crate (24"L x 18"W x 21"H) with smaller wire on the bottom but no bedding, set up on a couple of 4x4's right in the coop or run with feed and water.

I used to let them out a couple times a day, but now just once a day in the evening(you don't have to) and she would go out into the run, drop a huge turd, race around running, take a vigorous dust bath then head back to the nest... at which point I put her back in the crate. Each time her outings would lengthen a bit, eating, drinking and scratching more and on the 3rd afternoon she stayed out of the nest and went to roost that evening...event over, back to normal tho she didn't lay for another week or two. Or take her out of crate daily very near roosting time(30-60 mins) if she goes to roost great, if she goes to nest put her back in crate.

Tho not necessary a chunk of 2x4 for a 'roost' was added to crate floor after pic was taken.

 

[Softball_mama]

She has no eggs left and it’s been at least two weeks since they all broke. Idk how to get her to realize that she has no eggs.

Yeah when we seen that they were broken e we cleaned them she is laying on nothing

 

[Softball_mama]

Our chickens are free range we don’t own them up unless hurt or babies left by a mama. So she laid her eggs on the back porch we actually had two on the back porch laying the one has already hatched her eggs and maybe a two weeks old. That’s when we noticed the other hen has lost all of her eggs. But she keeps coming back like she has eggs but of course they are all gone. Even if we block it off she finds a way to get back to the corner where the eggs were at.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Even if we block it off she finds a way to get back to the corner where the eggs were at.

That's why you cage her, as aart posted above. The way to break them is to prevent them from going to their nesting site. A dedicated broodie doesn't need eggs, they will brood rocks, empty air... as long as they can get to the nest they'll want to sit.

But if you want her to have chicks, you can get newly hatched chicks and try slipping them under her at night while she sits on her nest.