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Sometimes two different broody hens that hatch chicks in different nests at the same time will imprint on their own chicks and leave each other alone. Sometimes the two broody hens will work together to raise the chicks. Sometimes the two broody hens will fight over the chicks with one wanting...

How do you know one of the other hens killed it? It's certainly possible. I had a broody hen kill her own chicks but that was in the nest. For some reason she killed two and raised the other 6 chicks fine. I have had other chickens threaten chicks but my broody hens have never failed to...

I don't know how you plan to manage that first broody or what your "brooder box" looks like. Are you going to let her raise her chicks with the flock or keep them isolated from the flock? How much room you have in your coops and especially runs can be important too. The more the better. I...