It sounds like promising broody behavior. Eventually, your girls will hear the call of broodiness. And like Fluffy suggested, it does sound like pre-broodiness. They’ll probably be ready when you don’t want them to be!! 🤣
My King quail kept doing that until she finally decided to go full-out broody. Over several days, she’d gather up eggs and sit on the nest for hours at a time. Then I’d find her out with her flock and cold eggs in the nest. I’d remove the eggs each time, but she continued to gather them. It...
The broody in question is an EE who was extremely insistent on being broody. She was sitting on 3 marked eggs in the broody box, but she kept moving to another one and fussing with those eggs (but not settling down on them). She’d lose interest (I thought) and settle back on her own eggs. In the...
She’s either allowing other hens to lay in the same nest, or she’s “egg-napping” from other nests. I didn’t believe they could do that, until I saw it for myself. I once caught one of my girls in the act… she was leaving another nesting box, so I lifted her wings, and there was an egg beneath!