I would suggest moving your broody hen and the eggs to a separate location. I have had several broody hens over the past and had lots of trouble with hens moving them off and then the eggs get broken. I also kept my hen with her hatched chicks by themselves for a few days til everyone appeared...
Hello, I'm new here but have been raising chickens for a couple years. I have a Hova-Bator 1602 incubator and have successfully incubated and hatched at least 10 batches of eggs with 90+% hatching!.....until recently.
My hatch rate has been going down the last 3 incubation runs....and I thought...
