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If you're lucky enough to have birds that will brood, yes. When they first start laying, though, the eggs will be small. In the off-chance one of them wants to brood them, I would advise against it. The little "pullet eggs" usually hatch but i've found the chicks to be a bit stunted, not growing...

...or out in a sneak-nest midsummer for nearly two weeks. If the hen isn't sitting, the eggs are not incubating. The first time I found a sneak-nest I automatically assumed the eggs were bad. As I tossed them at a boulder in the woods, all I saw was perfectly good eggs that didn't even smell...