Our little Sweetie Pie is "broody". This means she wants to sit on eggs and hatch baby chicks. This is a natural instinct for hens.
When they become broody, they quit laying eggs. In fact, they never leave the nest except for a sip of water and maybe a bite of food. They are not fussy whose eggs they sit on either. In fact, Sweetie is sitting on Maureen and Colleen's eggs, hoping they will hatch.
Sweetie can make it very difficult to find the eggs she is hiding.
A hen has a way of almost attaching herself to the nest, making it hard to get your hand under her to locate the eggs.
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