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You are going to have to block the broody's nest so the non broody hens can't get to her. Hens like laying on nests that have eggs in them already. I'd suggest blocking her nest and open it later in the afternoons so the broody can get up for a little bit. They can get off the eggs for quite...

Ideally you should give her all the eggs over a 1-2 day period. From my experience eggs hatch over a 2 day period and after that the hen wants to get up and walk around with her chicks. If you add eggs say, 3 days after she started sitting on the original 5, there is a chance she'll want to get...