Can I move eggs from incubator to broody?

[Erin80]

My black silkie is broody. I have 10 eggs on day 4 in the incubator. Could I move two to under her and have them keep developing?

 

[hysop]

Is it possible? Yes.

But in order to be successful make sure she’s been broody for a while and make the transfer at night.

I tried but failed because she stopped being broody a day later and due to that transfer 3 eggs stopped developing and died the day I transferred them. But all others survived the transfer back and forth to the incubator. And all hatched and are healthy