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2dancingrats and Aphreal---As Ridgerunner said Alot of different opinions!! For me---being like Aphreal I do not want my chicks to have to jump down 4ft, 3ft or 10ft. To keep this from happeningo ALL my Nest (where I will have broodies) are moveable. If a Hen goes broody and I want to let her continue---I set her with fresh layed Marked eggs and a few days after she was SET, I move her to a hatching pen---nest and all so she and the eggs/chicks will stay safe and also so I do not have to check under her each day for freshed layed eggs---which have to be removed. Doing it this way Aphreal------I do not have to worry!!! She and the chicks stay in this private pen till the chicks are about 3 weeks old. I have set 32 hens so far this season-----this works GREAT.
I didn't know about removing the eggs. I do know not all of the eggs under her came from her. I wonder if the other hens are sneaking in and laying them when she takes her food/water break. I've only seen her off the nest twice. Once she was getting off and saw me coming so she jumped back on. The other time, she must've been eating because she wasn't in there but when I took a peek, which is when I discovered she had other people's eggs in there, she came running and threatened me and got right back on. There are nine eggs...should I take some out?