TWB. Have fun. It sounds like your hen has gone broody. WHen a hen is broody, you can sometimes tell that because if you go to touch her, she will fluff out and look enormous, she will make some weird sounds to try and scare you away. Love nor money will move a broody hen. You can move her, along with the eggs, and she won't budge an inch. When my hen goes broody, I never see her get off the nest. She sits there for 21 days, not eating, nor drinking. Not to say that they don't, maybe they do eat and drink and get off the nest when I am not looking, that for surely could be possible. But I don't think so. Same with my turkeys. I had a turkey hen that was broody, sat on the eggs for 28 days (yes, they are 6 days longer than a chicken), those eggs were not viable. There had been a disturbance with the other young turkeys and she must have got off the eggs for a while or something I think. After about 33 days, I figured out the eggs must be bad. I took away those eggs. She still sat in the house. I put another group of eggs in another house for the other hen, in case she went broody. But this broody girl must have got off that empty nest, found the group of new eggs and began to sit again. So she sat for over 2 months, being broody, she did hatch out the second group of eggs. But let me tell ya, it was kind of freaking me out that she would have sat for two brooding of egg cycles, and I only saw her get off the eggs during the last part of the second sitting two times, to get some bread that I had thrown out for the chickens. I think they can go a long time without food (or eating when I am not looking, hee, hee). Just some of my experience. Have one of the wonderful and awesome days, Cindi