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I have successfully moved sitting hens by moving the hen with the eggs all at one time, quickly, into a prepared nest in a dog crate I had already made up. I think the trick was not moving the eggs, then going back to get the pet hen, but quickly putting her in the crate with the eggs.

I have saved chickens with flesh wounds by applying bactroban cream and cream with lidocaine for pain in it then painting over it with New Skin paint on bandaids. They healed quickly.

You never know. I have had hens adopt other hens chicks, strange or orphaned chicks, but you never know. I have had previous experience with bantams in particular being aggressive toward other hens chicks in the past. Keep them separated. I had one extra motherly hen adopt a bunch of other...