Any advice regarding this broody hen?

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Crazy as it sounds it would be a lot easier than moving her to a pen in the garage and setting her up for a week's vacation. If it works, great!

 

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Well, I woke up today to a chick in the incubator. Oh boy......

There has been the unmistakable smell of rotten egg coming out of that incubator the last few days and they should have hatched yesterday. I was thinking that maybe Bray (the hen) knew that they were rotten and just left them. NOT.

The day that I took her eggs she kept pacing along the shared fence with her flock. I opened the door to the coop and she never looked back. She simply broke being broody with 3 days left on those eggs. UGH.

Hopefully, this little guy has a friend hatch. Fortunately, we have some one week old meat chicks that I can put him in with (but probably separated) so he's not all by himself.