broody chicken and hatching chicks advice please :D

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one of my hens has gone broody so im going to get some eggs for her to hatch but, she is in a chicken coop/run with 2 other hens, i will get a pick of the house so you can see what i mean, i can make her her own area where the other two cant get to her but the house is up high, so its not ideal for when the chicks hatch and she was very unhappy when i moved her to a hutch iv made her in the shed, can i move her to the shed once the chicks have been hatched?
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this is inside the house, she is in the right hand nest box which i can seperate off so the others cant desturb it.
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but if you can see they have to jump in and out because their ladder broke.
advice apreciated, she is sitting on one unfertilised egg at the mo, and will put the eggs under when iv sorted it out. can i move her and the chicks once they have hatched?
 
I had one chicken disappear last year , then one morning there she was with 7 chicks, she had hidden behind a board .The other chickens were fine with her and the chicks. If you take her away then it is hard to reintroduce. I have always just left them to it before but I do have a cockeral with them . Good luck
 
would the chicks be ok living in there if i fixed the ladder back on, thats the only trouble, is its so high up
 
I use an old cat box for my 'broodies' and it works a treat.
Left where she is other chooks will try and get in on the act and eggs end up broken etc so best to seperate her with her eggs and leave her to get on with it.
Our new Mum has just taken new chicks(8weeks) into main henhouse on her own and all mix well so no probs on that.
Happy hatching...
 
she's in more danger from the other hens whilst she's sitting on the eggs. the other hens don't like them being broody and will beat her up.
once the babies hatch, she'll be mobile (they run round underneath her) and she'll stand up for them. but, whilst sitting on them, she's a sitting target. esp if she's sitting in the box they like to lay in.
our broody hen chose to sit on her eggs in the normal hen house, where they lay their eggs. they beat the crap out of her so we had to make a make shift fence for her. they flew over it to beat her up and lay eggs on her head. so we had to make a roof thing for it...

3 weeks later, fifteen healthy chicks emerged and have lived with the big hens ever since. but we left the makeshift sectioned off bit for her to put them into at night. they only used it for the first week or so. now they're fully integrated.

you'll have difficulty moving her now she's sat there broody. she could be quite vicious, and also she's chosen to sit there... so if you move her, she might just become unbroody.

p.s. make sure she gets food and water, cos she might not look after herself properly.
 
would she settle better if i moved her at night? she is ok with me moving her etc unlike the other ones who peck if you get in a few inches of her. its just not ideal where she is coz of jumping in and out of the house.
 
Best time to move her is at night!! Move her somewhere dark at night and just make sure she eats and drinks!
 
my bantam has also gone broody(third time this year) she also in the coop with two other hens and a cockeral(which need another home...anyone who wants, him can have him otherwise hes going to the cloulds)
you could either partition her off from the others and once chicks have hatch move them or as other posts has said move her at night..make sure she has water and food close by at all times as some broodys will sit for the whole 21 days...otherwise its advisable to lift her off the nest at least once a day

good luck

dont let her sit on the unfertilised egg for long as this could explode and start to smell..my bantam was sitting on a golfball and a piece of bread before i got her some eggs
 
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