I found an egg (broken) on the bottom of the cage I moved Skittles to. They had "night frights" which is VERY odd for them Saturday night, and I think she may have laid the egg then and scared the other birds in the cage when it happened. It was about 1:30 am. and the egg was freshly broken. It took forever to get 11 birds all settled down again. She is in there with the first five babies. When all the birds are out, they have "community cages" (they go in and out of whatever cage they want and eat the food there) and I noticed Skittles is not allowed in her nest box anymore (the two babies still in there guard the entrance) even though she tries to get in. She is real peeved about that too. I would think she would be tired of laying eggs and all these babies by now, but she still wants to mate. In fact she chases Rainbow and tries to get him to mate, but she is definitely not in breeding condition anymore. Do you think she will continue to lay another clutch on the floor of the cage??? Any way to get her to stop?

i tend to find an odd egg on the floor of the flights after i have removed the hens from the breeding cages but not full clutches

thanks hath. There hasn't been an egg today so far, but she seems very nervous. Is that normal?

some of my hens are more nervous when taken from the breeding cages but soon settle