The hen is brooding. i.e. she is a brooding hen.
Just leave her alone i think she will get used to things in her own time if not maybe ask a friend who has them :-) HAVEE FUNN ......!!
on sitting on them Hens on a farm lay eggs into straw and the hens sit on the eggs until they hatch. Hens in large chicken farms do get to have such a luxury. The chickens' eggs are kept under heat until they hatch.
It's a maternal instinct - in the wild hens / birds sit on their eggs to keep them warm grow into chicks and hatch. Most eggs now are unfertilised but the hen retains the maternal instinct to sit on them anyway.
Every single breed of hen (even mix) will sit on their eggs when they feel like they want chickens. One of the hens that brood alot are brahma hens.
Hens do not need grass to lay eggs if their food contains all the nutrients they need, but they do enjoy eating it!
Hens will not sit on eggs unless they are "broody" - which is when they are actively attempting to incubate a nest. Hens will not just sit on every egg they lay.
Yes, if given the chance broiler hens will sit on their eggs and incubate them - this is instinctive behavior.
so then they can make love with there babies and be like Emily
NO, hens lay eggs without roosters at all. The only thing roosters do for eggs, is fertilize them (Threw Mating) so that a chick can hatch.
Pea hens lay eggs and sit on the nest about 28 days to hatch a clutch of eggs
The term is Brooding
Because it is a natural instinct for them to go broody
they lay one egg a day for about 12 days before they decide to sit and incubate their eggs. They also "steal" eggs from other chickens who are not broody.