Broody Hen, sitting for almost 2 weeks Help?! i don't know what i am doing!

To Move or Not to Move the Broody?

  • Yeah, move the broody

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  • Nope, keep her where she is

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  • Let her hatch then put in a brooder

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  • Move offending birds to different housing

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SilverLacedLady

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MY FIRST BROODY!
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Hello, I have been keeping chickens for 5 years now. I kinda turned into a crazy chicken lady. Got some issues. I have my first ever broody. she will be a year old nest month, she is a barred rock. sitting on a clutch of 10 random eggs, including a Muscovy duck egg. it has been about 2 weeks since she started sitting, and i have no idea what i am doing. i have every intention of letting her raise the babies herself, but the duck egg threw me off and my flock is currently having some behavioral issues. i have 2 roos, the same age as the hen that's brooding that are involved in a power struggle. i don't know if that is the safest place for her to raise the chicks but i don't want to chance moving her, and i don't have enough time to build something to house the 1 roo and a handful of girls as the struggle seems to be over him having a lack of ladies to breed. any advice would be wonderful as i am currently freaking out, i have been waiting for this for ages, and i don't want anybody to smash the chicks, also pertinent infro would be that there are 3 female scovies and 3 male pekins housed with them.
 
Hi, Lyz. First thing that I would do is fine a home for one of the roosters. The hen will not set on the Muscovy egg to term - they take 35 days to hatch. I would be somewhat concerned about the ducks injuring/killing the chicks unless your birds are free range over a rather large area.
 
What if I could move the ducks and relocate the Roo that gets the short end of the stick with a handful of girls for him? That's what my issue is, he doesn't have any ladies of his own to look after because he is much smaller than the big roo, I just didn't know if my hens would be inclined to kill the chicks? To top all of this off I am about to be gone for 4 days, my son was the one who noticed that she was broody and for all I know the chicks will hatch while I am out of town and I have to tell him what to do.
 

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