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Maybe. Even if the coops are side-by-side, she won't have much to do with the other chickens while she's spending 21 days on the nest. After the eggs hatch, when she's taking care of the chicks, it could be useful to have the coops next to each other. That way she and the others can become...

If you do it in the daytime, she will probably jump off and try to go back to her old nest. If you do it at night, she cannot see well, so she will probably stay on the new nest for the rest of the night. Then in the morning she might still try to go back to her old nest, but she might have...

Some hens will continue brooding if you move them, and some will not. I suggest you collect the fertile eggs safely in your house, and use fake eggs in the nests to see which hens want to be broody. (Wood eggs, plastic eggs, ceramic eggs, golf balls--many options work fine.) To move a hen: it...