Broody hen situation, to incubate or not?

[Lady of McCamley]

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One more update for you. It's been 10 days since the first chick hatched. 4 days since the last chicken hatched. 3 were brought up 5 days ago and all were accepted, then one was rejected, I think it got hurt as it looked like splayed foot, but he was fine before going in with mama hen. I brought it back and hobbled it last Saturday and Sunday and it seems much better. It's is stronger and keeping up with the rest. A total of 8 hatched and just now I brought the last 5 of them up to the mama hen to see if she'd take them... So far so good. They're resting comfortably under her wings. I'll check on them in a couple hours to make sure none are rejected and go from there. She's an amazing mama hen!

She is an amazing momma...many hens won't do that...take staggered chicks with their original brood.

Good for her. I am glad it is working out for you.

But of course as you learned, set all those eggs at the same time next time and remove the later eggs. or better, isolate momma from the other hens.