several eggs found

[kellsbarnyard]

I have been watching one particular hen. She is extremly noisy in the morning for about half hour, wondering around. So i watched her, she then dissappeared into some tall grass,after she came back, I went to where she had been, and found a nest with 6 eggs. Was she collecting? Then going to sit? This same hen recently gave us a brood of 14 chicks

 

[sourland]

She is starting a new clutch of eggs. Once she has laid 'enough', she will set and raise another brood. Is her chosen nest site safe from predators?

 

[kellsbarnyard]

Thank you for your response, that was my thought, but I found it quite odd that she would lay in the roadside ditch, which answers your question about safety. We have skunks, and I am surprised there were any eggs at all. I went ahead and gathered them, and am hoping she finds refuge in another spot. Now that I have collected them, will she resume a new clutch?

 

[sourland]

She will most likely pick a new spot and start laying there. Hopefully it will be someplace more secure.

 

[7L Farm]

I know zero about broody hens I have a broody Brinsea. But couldn't you just lock her up in her coop so she would be safe & let her lay the clutch in there. I'm just curious. Seems like to me well I couldn't leave a chicken outside over night something would eat it or a snake would eat the eggs.

 

[kellsbarnyard]

my chickens do have a pen that they roost in at nite, during the day they are free to roam wherever, if i find a new clutch forming in an unsafe spot, i amgoing to collect them and move them somewhere safe, show her, and keep you posted if she adopts new location. thank you for your responses, it helped