Hatching eggs the o'natural way!

[newchik]

I had luck moving my setting hens in the night. Just wait until she is asleep, and move her then with her eggs. I scooped up her, her eggs AND the hay onto a piece of cardboard and moved them all together at once. She made some noises, but once I set them all down, she fluffed herself over the eggs and went right back to sleep. She's made not a peep (LOL) about it since.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I am a new chicken owner of only 4 months and our Cochin hens have gone broody. They laid eggs only 2 months and then Matilda did not get off her nest all day and the next morning. I figured she had gone broody. Since we always took the eggs she was sitting on only one but then Flossie went broody the next day and had 2 eggs under her, the following day the third hen started sitting with one egg.
I did move them all as Matilda was on the choicest nest in an old box and I knew the others would pile on top of her so late afternoon I moved it into a corner with her still on the nest and put an old cage around her, then had to do the same with the 2 others as they went broody since my roos were upset about it.
Now I go down each morning to let the roos out to free range and take a hen off the nest to eat and drink and make that horrible nasty poop. I leave them off for about 20 minutes then go back down and put them up and then take another off since they can't get back into the cage themselves. I tried to let them come out on their own but they didn't for almost 3 days. The roos chase them around if I don't close the coop and the girls have been fighting if I let them out at the same time.
This is all new to me but I am learning!