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Some people get up early before the chickens wake and watch to make sure the hen accepts the chicks and if it doesn't then they take them away and raise them in a brooder. I think the getting up before dawn part would be the downfall for some people on this part. It wouldn't bother me as I have...

The posts I have read on this subject seem to agree to sticking the chicks under/around the hen at night with as little light and disturbance as possible. I have never had a broody hen but I would probably stick some other eggs, golf balls, etc under the remaining broody and then wait until the...