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Update three days later: two broodies, the Olive Egger and Marans are broken and back with the flock, acting normal. One of the remaining ones, a Silver Gray Dorking, stopped sitting on her eggs today, even though she did so for two days after I moved her. I took her eggs and put them under the...

I moved the other two broodies and left the two in the lower nests with the rest of the flock. So far they are staying in the lower nests. I can keep monitoring and will remove all unmarked eggs from all the nests daily or more often. Thank you for the advice on broody braking. I will try the...

Thank you, Aart! This is what I did this morning: decided to limit to two broodies and break two. Moved the marked eggs to the two bottom nests and put two of the broodies in them. One stayed in right away and the other settled in after coming back out twice. I will use dog crates as suggested...

Oh and some older hens chase the cockerel away and others do not.

There are a total of 11 eggs and I do have space for that number of chicks in the coop and run. My friend can take the extra cockerels. From candling it looks like some of the eggs are fertile. Three of the hens have been sitting for a week or more and one just started two days ago. My plan is...

I have no experience with this and would appreciate any help. One of the chicks we got this year turned out to be a cockerel. He is now five months old. We have never had a rooster before, and now that he is here, four out of my 20 hens have become broody. I have a couple of questions. 1) How...