one hen stealing all the eggs!

[chick-in-florida]

I have a broody girl who is keeping everyone's eggs - she has 18 at least! should i move her so they can't keep climbing in the nest and giving away their eggs? can she actually hatch all of them? help!
I have 13 other hens by the way

 

[rcentner]

you need to move her so she cant steal eggs or you can mark the ones she is already sitting on and removed all the unmarked daily. She wont successfully be able to hatch that many especially since they were all laid at different times. I had 2 hens set on 21 eggs last year and only a handful hatched

 

[chick-in-florida]

ok i guess i'll do that. too bad she picked everyone's favorite nest. i wonder why they all want to lay in one nest even though there are 4 other nests...