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Part 2 to "Thread 'Ex-broody hen not laying eggs 4 MONTHS after hatching'" https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/ex-broody-hen-not-laying-eggs-4-months-after-hatching.1619456/ TLDR; Hasn't layed in 4 months post hatching and her fullgrown children still want to sleep in the nest with her...

Put an egg in the nestbox to stimulate her - she decided to go broody and sit on it!

Will try feeling around her butt - she was eating chick feed before that

Would have blocked them off long ago also but I've been away at uni and am only back for 2wks - and then will be gone again till june. Parents r not the most interested in their welfare. These are the only chickens, I've also only just started letting them out to roam around the yard when I got...

Here is mama hen keeping watch over her GROWN 4 month old babies, who are fully capable of taking care of themselves. She has fully regained her pre-brooding weight for atleast 2 months, and molted after brooding, still no eggs. Am at a loss. They hatched in december and it's now beginning...