How can I leverage a broody hen into baby chicks?

[billmac]

OK, that didn't work. She wouldn't sit on the eggs at all. I removed the eggs to the fridge and put her back with the flock. She has gone right back to the next box. Should I just let the eggs collect under her and hope for the best? Perhaps if the box fills up with eggs the other hens won't kick her out?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

OK, that didn't work. She wouldn't sit on the eggs at all. I removed the eggs to the fridge and put her back with the flock. She has gone right back to the next box. Should I just let the eggs collect under her and hope for the best? Perhaps if the box fills up with eggs the other hens won't kick her out?

What I did with mine, cause I couldn't move her either, was marked the eggs that I wanted her to have, and then checked under her daily to take out any fresh ones laid and kept all the other nests collected so that they didn't tempt her to sit somewhere else if one of the other hens chased her off the nest to lay where she was.