Brooding Jersey Giant in nest

[JacinLarkwell]

Just an update, she's only sitting on one egg and a dummy egg.
Question for y'all.
Once she hatches the one, what are the odds that if I take my incubated eggs that hatch and I put the chicks with her in the nest that she'll adopt?
Or is better for me to make a brooder and raise them in it?

She might, she might not. Broodies can be nutty sometimes. Ive had some that want all the chicks, somw that do try to roost again on day two (she's an idiot amd will not be setting anymore), one that only wanted 2 chicks ever. She would hatch more and take in orphans, but leave babies until she was down to 2 again (she also will probably not be allowed to set more) and one that halfway through brooding, adopted a 5 week old that was being weaned by another hen, and then tried to kill her own eggs when hatching (but she remained setting on them even after adopting the 5 week old)

 

[pctechtx]

She might, she might not. Broodies can be nutty sometimes. Ive had some that want all the chicks, somw that do try to roost again on day two (she's an idiot amd will not be setting anymore), one that only wanted 2 chicks ever. She would hatch more and take in orphans, but leave babies until she was down to 2 again (she also will probably not be allowed to set more) and one that halfway through brooding, adopted a 5 week old that was being weaned by another hen, and then tried to kill her own eggs when hatching (but she remained setting on them even after adopting the 5 week old)

Kind of sounds like life, try and see what happens... Thanks

 

[pctechtx]

I took eggs from incubator at around 14 days and stuck under her. Unfortunately she broke eggs. I got 2 new additions. Been a learning experience, she's not the smartest. So I've been making changes to hopefully make the chicks lives safer/better. They are a week old.

 

[pctechtx]

Cuties. 2wks