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Thanks! I played musical eggs and now each hen has a staggered hatch of 3-4 days apart, so separating will be best at this point, I think. The first brood emerges Wednesday! So excited! I gotta say, I *love* broodies! Just set 'em and forget 'em :) No fussing about the eggs on the...

That's what I was afraid of :( Thanks for the input!

I just now realized this was under chicken behavior, not hatching eggs. I'm not sure how that happened! I moved the three hens to the broody pen. So far so good. The turkey was last, I didn't think it would work, but I used the old box she brooded in last time and she settled right in...

I am wondering if I can move all 3 to a pen together, but leave them in their separate nests? Luckily my nest boxes are an old desk, so the drawers can be pulled out and moved; broody, eggs, and all. I just don't know where to put them!

Aahh! Okay, both broody turkey and chook got up for breakfast and a 3rd chook saw the nest and instantly turned broody! So that's 3 new broodies in the last 3 days and 1 turykey broody almost to hatch. These girls are in the front corner of the coop in the 3 favorite nest boxes. I divided...

Yeah, problem is egg breaking and stealing. The two broodies initially tried to bully eachother out of the nest and broke a few. I moved half a dozen to the neighboring nesting box and put the chook in there, she took to it just fine. I had to move my other turkey out because she would raid...

Darn! Well, I at least got the new turken broody to accept the nest box next door with half a dozen eggs. It saves the two of the battling over the one nest (that was a sight to see!). I've moved both my turkeys before with perfect success, but only to the broody coop and never at the same...

I've read through a few old topics but couldn't find much advice. I have 1 turkey hen setting 21 chicken eggs. She's 10 days from hatch, isolated in my 70 sq ft broody pen in her own mini coop. Well, my other turkey hen (who just hatched a brood of 26 chicks in March) decided to go broody and...