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I have two 15 week roosters. One rooster is afraid of me, but a horndog for sure. He never leaves the poor hens alone. The other rooster is on the bottom of the totem pole and always tries to show me his fancy feet, presumably to attempt to dominate me. I'm just concerned hormones would make...

Unfortunately I'm trying to work around my ridiculous work schedule. And at the time I was confident she'd be fine being left with the rest of the flock, but now that I lost my good rooster, I'm worried that I should try to isolate her before they hatch.

And how do I know if the babies that I added won't reject mom??

So you think putting babies under her a little before hers hatch is a better idea? Definitely if they were externally pipping by Thursday night I was going to run and get babies then, but I didn't think they would by then. I assumed they could be delayed by 12-24 hours.

This hen has proven to be a good mom, so at least for her own chicks I wasn't worried. I do have a brand new rooster though so I'm a bit concerned about him with her chicks. Last time she just raised the babies with the rest of the flock and my rooster at the time (killed by the bear) actually...

I've read tons of threads on this, but am still hoping for some reinforcement, lol. So I have a broody due to hatch Thursday, but she left the nest and the eggs got lukewarm to cold on three occasions in the first six days of sitting. I checked two of the five eggs on Saturday, and there was...