Serama laid her first egg

[owlbaby]

My Serama, Dovey laid her first egg 4/7, she laid one on 4/8 and 4/9 which both got broken, she the laid on 4/10. I removed her 4/7 egg on 4/8 with the intention of incubating it, but she began paced and looking for her egg, she found the broken one. I gave her back her egg and she laid another one, covered them up and I haven't seen her sit on them at all? We are expecting a temp drop, should I take her eggs and put them in an incubator? Or let her keep them. There are 2 in there now.

She also set up her nest in the corner outsideof the coop, on the ground should I move them higher? I have old lockers as nesting boxes!
I took off the striped doors!

Any thoughts, suggestions, Thanks!

 

[em_dawson]

This might be a dumb question but are the eggs fertilized? Do you have a rooster that has bred with your girls? If so, they might be fertile. If not, if you incubate them, they’re not going to develop.

As for her not sitting on them, hens have to go broody to incubate eggs. If she’s not doing that, she’s likely not broody and you would have to incubate them in an incubator. If you leave them in there, they’ll probably get broken again if she’s not sitting on them.

 

[owlbaby]

Yes there is a rooster, so I am guessing they are, she has been "sat upon" a few times! If she was broody, she would be sitting on them all the time, correct? Thanks for your response!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Yeah, she'd be on them pretty much whenever you checked on her. My phoenixes (the only darn birds I can get bloody enough to hatch) will get up, run out to eat and drink and maybe stop for a dustbath or breeding before running back to their eggs for the next twelve hours

 

[MGG]

It is best to wait at least a couple months to incubate from new layers. They usually have some wonky eggs in the beginning that would not be suitable to support life. She is not broody, just natural behavior. I would remove the eggs, but you probably should just discard them. If she was broody she would growl and be on the nest constantly. She probably will go broody one day as Seramas are a very broody breed. But they generally brood more one they're a year old.