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I would move them as little as possible, it makes the hens nervous. You don’t want her abandoning the chicks. I put mine in a 66qt container which is not very large, and put it on a shelf in a quiet corner.

I moved my hen to a plastic bin indoors with a hardware cloth cut out in the lid when she had been sitting for 1-2 days, and they remained there until I took the chicks out. She was a wonderful mother and never harmed any of them, and even adopted an older chick when hers were about 5 days old...