In last week's post, I talked about the behavior of hens when they go broody. Accompanying that piece was a photo of my Mille Fleur banty that I had suspected was just starting to go broody. Sure enough she did. All week long, she has been sitting on the eggs of the other hens. For the most part, they have been cooperating. I noticed that they were getting in the nesting box with her and laying their eggs with her in there. That would account for how she could manage to accumulate a number of eggs without coming off the nest.
The above video, taken today, shows her sitting on two eggs that are obviously too big to be hers. In the next box, a barred rock pullet is laying. After I removed the two eggs she was sitting on, she climbed in with the other hen and took over sitting duty. Later in the day, when Amy went out to look for eggs, she discovered two other chickens in that box with her. Three hens in one nesting box! That's a record for us.
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