Sick duck?

[SeraJoy]

I have two hens and one drake. They are just over a year old. For a while we were getting two eggs a day, then the hen that was broody stopped laying eggs, but continued to sit on her nest nearly all day. Occasionally we'd see her out in the yard for a few minutes but mostly she stayed on her nest with the straw all snuggled up around her. We tried leaving her alone thinking she'd get over it but she stayed like that for a couple weeks. Today I moved her off the nest and shut the coop to see how she acted being with the others in the yard. She seems to be fine tho her feathers are a little more rustled then the others. I'm not sure if she's trying to lay but can't? Or if she's sick?

 

[chickens really]

What?...Broody Hens don't lay eggs they set to hatch them...

 

[SeraJoy]

Don't they have to lay them before they hatch them? Maybe I don't understand the term. Both hens were laying eggs but this one would try to hatch hers (sitting on them all day unless I picked them up..i thought that was brooding) but I don't want that so I was picking them up daily. Now we only get one egg from the other hen and the one that had been trying to hatch her eggs stopped laying them but still sits like she is trying to hatch something. I'm new to ducks, sorry if I used the term wrong.

 

[chickens really]

Don't they have to lay them before they hatch them? Maybe I don't understand the term. Both hens were laying eggs but this one would try to hatch hers (sitting on them all day unless I picked them up..i thought that was brooding) but I don't want that so I was picking them up daily. Now we only get one egg from the other hen and the one that had been trying to hatch her eggs stopped laying them but still sits like she is trying to hatch something. I'm new to ducks, sorry if I used the term wrong.

Block off that nest and destroy it. Collect your eggs daily from the one still laying. The Broody won't lay eggs till possibly next spring..