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Farm had a half dozen brooder coops with large kerosene heated brooders in the very center. Chickens would roost in the trees all summer long, and as they came into lay I would help catch them at night and move them to the laying houses. The lady gave my family many of the cockerels that came...

As a kid I helped at an egg production farm - old fashioned with large barn/coops and wooden nest boxes. The lady had a smaller pen for broody hens. Through the summer there were generally a half dozen or more leghorn hens in there. It happens, and they can be successful mothers.