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No. Not just because she's broody and may hatch chicks; she has all the insulation necessary to keep the chicks warm.
This is under the assumption it's not going to suddenly drop to ZERO degrees tonight and all the chickens need heat. If it's only going to freezing, 32 degrees...
So I'm approaching day 21 with a broody hen, but this morning I found one egg cracked open with a mostly developed chick in it.
This makes me wonder what went wrong - but at this point, I'm just going to wait and see if the hen will hatch out the other 2 eggs.
A question I have though, is...
We have three EE eggs under our first time broody Buff Rock. She is due Nov 3rd - we'll see how it goes - I haven't candelled any of the eggs yet - we've been working today to try to locate a Marek's vaccine (online Jefferslivestock has it - but $15 plus shipping for 3 potential chicks! -it...