How Do I Move Her And Her Eggs

[REINABUGY]

I Have A Broody And I Use Pine Shavings. She Is On 10 Eggs And It Has Been About 7 Days. How And When Should I Move Her To A Kennel?

 

[MiniBeesKnees]

I kind of depended on all the advice on the board about how hard it is to break a broody...and figured moving her and her eggs was not going to cause her to quit.

I've always moved mine into a dog crate inside the coop (it is my fifth hatch that I have a hen sitting on 16 now) after I was sure they were broody which was after they had been on the nest 24 hours. I put a pen around the crate and a top and put in food and water and enough room for those terrible poops...and I cover all the sides and top of the crate with a tarp.
Then I gather the eggs up in any old direction and move them to a hollow I put in the shavings in the crate.
Then I move the hen, and shut the (wire) dog crate door until she settles down on them. That has always been anywhere from instantly to ten minutes. Then I open the crate door to allow her access to her mini run.
I didn't wait until dark, I did it in the morning when all the rest of them were outside. I used to use straw, and now use pine shavings and for the nest the hens don't seem to care which is which. My first brood hatched on leaves.
After they hatch and she takes them off the nest...I clean out the shells, and take away the mini run and that little family will roost in the crate for anywhere from seven weeks to three months. So far all the hens took them off the nest on the third day after they start hatching and she brings them out to meet the rest of the flock where they all are together from then on.