Hen just sits in the nesting box

[Beachgirl8796]

I have a hen that as been sitting in the nesting box for about 2 weeks. I can finically make her leave but she's back with in an hour. When I push her out she puffs up her feathers and the eventually gets food and water. Today I moved her nesting box out of the corner and she just went to the other one that all my hens use. Her comb had dropped a bit but the color seems good. I'm baffled.

 

[Noraaaaa]

She's definitely broody! Did you take the eggs from her? If you did not then she has a lot under her. Do you have a rooster? Then you will have baby chicks in a week. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-break-a-broody-hen.181289/

 

[Beachgirl8796]

I've been taking them now she's not laying at all now. She's only sitting on the fake eggs should I get them out?

 

[rosemarythyme]

Do you want her to hatch or raise chicks or not? If not, you can wait it out or break the broodiness yourself, though it may take longer since she's sat this long already.

 

[Cosmo Lily]

I have a hen that as been sitting in the nesting box for about 2 weeks. I can finically make her leave but she's back with in an hour. When I push her out she puffs up her feathers and the eventually gets food and water. Today I moved her nesting box out of the corner and she just went to the other one that all my hens use. Her comb had dropped a bit but the color seems good. I'm baffled.

She should be broody. All that puffing up and sitting nonstop is classic. If there’s no plan for chicks, best to break the cycle and pop her in a wire-bottom cage with food and water, no cozy bedding. That can cools her off and resets things.

 

[BDutch]

She should be broody. All that puffing up and sitting nonstop is classic. If there’s no plan for chicks, best to break the cycle and pop her in a wire-bottom cage with food and water, no cozy bedding. That can cools her off and resets things.

Many hens stop being broody without caging her. I never used a cage.

Just take away all eggs a.s.a.p. Block the entrance to this nestbox if possible. Put her on the roost when it’s getting dark/after dark. Hold on for at least 2-4 days. Normally this will do but there are exceptions. Within a week all my broodies went back to normal.

BTW, the first post was the best description of a broody I have ever been reading.

 

[Beachgirl8796]

Do you want her to hatch or raise chicks or not? If not, you can wait it out or break the broodiness yourself, though it may take longer since she's sat this long already.

Do broody hens stop laying?

 

[NatJ]

Do broody hens stop laying?

Yes.

 

[RoyalChick]

I have a hen that as been sitting in the nesting box for about 2 weeks. I can finically make her leave but she's back with in an hour. When I push her out she puffs up her feathers and the eventually gets food and water. Today I moved her nesting box out of the corner and she just went to the other one that all my hens use. Her comb had dropped a bit but the color seems good. I'm baffled.

Welcome to the world of broody hens!
Some people like @BDutch have hens who can be persuaded to stop being broody relatively easily as she describes in this thread.
I have one at the other end of the extreme who is just impossible!
Good luck.

 

[Beachgirl8796]

Welcome to the world of broody hens!
Some people like @BDutch have hens who can be persuaded to stop being broody relatively easily as she describes in this thread.
I have one at the other end of the extreme who is just impossible!
Good luck.

She is a Buff Orpington I wonder if it's a breed issue