New egg layer

[536320]

My 8 month old silkie has been sitting on 7 eggs for just over a week now. There was 8, the one had a hole in it so I threw it away. I go in the coop every morning so she can eat some seeds or treats out my hand. In the afternoon I take her off the nest carefully so she can stretch legs, make a big poop, drink water and eat some more. After about 5 to 10 minutes, she goes back on the eggs and stays there until the next day. She talks back when I greet her and she looks healthy. If some of the eggs are bad or infertile, do I remove them while she is still broody and replace them with fake eggs or wait until the 21 days are over? I'm new to this and love it. Thanks in advance.

 

[aart]

I assume you are candling eggs?
I would remove any infertile ones.

 

[536320]

So all the eggs were infertile and I removed them and put in clean bedding, etc. Her broodiness seems to broken after 2 days as she hasn't gone back to the nesting area again. So if I don't want her to sit on eggs again, do I just remove the eggs as she lays them and then close of the nesting area again?

 

[aart]

So if I don't want her to sit on eggs again, do I just remove the eggs as she lays them and then close of the nesting area again?

All eggs should be removed from nests daily anyway.
If a bird is truly broody she will sit on nothing.
If she goes broody again, and you don't want to give her fertile eggs to hatch,
the quickest way to break the broodiness is to put them in a wire crate.

My experience goes about like this: After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest, I put her in a wire dog crate 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.
Chunk of 2x4 for a 'roost' was added to crate floor after pic was taken.