broodiness period?

[rahulsood]

hello chicken experts i have a question,
my japanese and cohchin are laying eggs but they are not broody so i got an aseel mix hen for brooding and she is siting on the eggs, i want to know for how much time a hen can be broody?if she able to hatch the eggs and i separate the chicks, then again can i put the eggs under the broody hen? will she sit on the eggs? can i do this several times?

 

[sumi]

No, let a hen hatch one batch of eggs, raise the chicks and recover. Being broody is hard on a hen and she can lose up to 25% of her body weight during the 3 weeks it takes to incubate her eggs. It'll be cruel to take her babies away and give her more eggs to hatch. Rather get an incubator then.

 

[rahulsood]

she already is on 2nd batch, last time she broke all the eggs and only hatched one baby which died after 2 days... so she became aggressive and started fighting with other chickens, so for the try i gave her new eggs, and she was broody that time so she sit on that.