[smudger]

Unfortunately we don't have a cockeral

At least she wasn't chicken dinner. She was missing when I went to lock up the coop. She hasn't been laying very well, so we suspected she was laying elsewhere. When I lifted her (with gloves, she was pecking, didn't want to go the hen house), there were 14 eggs underneath her! More .

Do Barnvelders normally go broody and hens without a cockeral?

[Fowlman]

All hens have the potential to go broody with or without a cockerel. Seeing as the eggs arent fertile you will need to break her or get some hatching eggs.

[goosepimple]

Try ebay for hatching eggs of your choice, if not you will have to shock her out of it or she will just start sitting again within a week or so.