Do I Move a Broody Hen?

[feathers_3]

They tend to like being closed off so they feel protected and not threatened. Good luck to ya!!

 

[Ole rooster]

I have a broody hen in the coop nest boxes ....I have marked the eggs I want hatched out with a big X and everyday when I collect eggs I check under her for extra's ...she's a cranky old bird so I have to wear long sleeves ...usually my other broodys let me collect eggs from under them the ones that I dont mark with an X.
Also when I have a bunch go broody at the same time ...I either go buy some eggs if I want a different breed and put them under her and sometimes I place some in small dog crates with food and water ...so the others have nest boxes and I dont have eggs getting broken ...

I find this a little strange. When mine started settin she stopped laying. It wasn't till a month after she turned the chicks out on their own did she start again. I gonna have a mess around here. I have 4 pullets I didn't particularly want that was hatched, I put 18 egg in the incubator that goes into lock um up the first, now I have another BO started settin yesterday. She's on 5 eggs. But the 18 are GLW's I'm hoping for.