I have a silly albino hen in the aviary who layed an egg and was sitting on it in the corner yesterday, I took it away from her and she was back there again today lookin decidedly comfy and when I moved her along she has a definate eggy bum so another on the way I would say. I had noticed that she and my blue spangle boy had been quite bonded the last few weeks and she certainly flew straight back to him when I moved her on today so I decided to make them up a cage(despite not really havin the space). They are now happily settled in their new cage and the hen is already checking out the new box so she might even lay the next one in there if I'm lucky. I marked the first one and put it under the other pet type pair which has eggs(and one chick-YAY!) at the moment so if she starts sitting happily I'll give it back to her in a few days.

Good luck with her

good luck... when you say she was in the corner is there a shelf or something there? She must like the spot if she went back to lay another one... things that make you go hmmmm.

The only thing there is a little pile of leaves and feathers that I leave there because the quails like to sleep on it.

The only thing there is a little pile of leaves and feathers that I leave there because the quails like to sleep on it.

 

I have one of those spots too hehe

She is pretty persistant though, she also tried to nest in the base of one of those rectangular flight cages that had my 'kindy chicks' in it. I can't understand how she could have found it comfy, she was squished in the pull out tray with the kindy chicks walking all over her head :bump:

Lol, like a pair of teenagers when you tell them NO they must go ahead!! Bet she's happy now making 'house'

so its in the corner on the ground??? thats crazy. Some birds just don't want to conform to normality...

Leave the first egg under your pet hen. If you transfer it back to the silly hen and it has been incubated already by the pet hen, the temperature will change and it may be addled, or she might eat it or reject it.

Will do The main reason I was going to put it back was because the other hens eggs are hatching now so it would make for a pretty big difference in age and that's assuming the egg doesn't get so dirty its DIS anyway. She only started incubating it yesterday and the ino hen is now happily incubating her second egg in the nest box so what is a bigger risk, moving it now or DIS due to older chicks in nest?

My hen normie always lays 10-12 eggs. To prevent the older chicks from addling the unhatched eggs, when normie hatches out her first three chicks, I remove the oldest one to the nest of another hen with similar sized chicks. This is especially good if you have another hen with only one or two chicks and the rest clear eggs. It spreads the parental workload. So normie still has two, and continues to hatch the eggs. As more hatch I keep removing the oldest one until there are two young chicks and three eggs left, then she can raise the final five which will be roughly the same size.

Except that this pet type hen has jumped the gun on the rest who have only just started laying in the last day or two (darn fertile pet types)

Good Luck with her