how many eggs can a broody sit on

[smokeyodie97]

I am wondering cause she is about 6 or so inches from one side to the other and I want to put more eggs under her she is only on one egg.

 

[orionburn]

How many are you wanting to put under there? Our banty sat on 12 eggs and she's tiny. She did a good job of spreading herself out to cover them. Out of the 12 we had 8 hatch.

There's one problem, though - you don't want to keep adding eggs. Do it all at once. There is a good chance momma will abandon the other eggs once one or two chicks hatch out.

 

[MiniBeesKnees]

I had a banty sit on 16, and hatch 13. One was infertile, a snake got one, and one didn't hatch.

 

[abqferreira]

I am curious about what the answer to this post is as well. I just had one of our young Bantys go broody this week. I felt so sorry for her sitting on the dummy plastic egg that I went out and found her some fertile eggs. These are the biggest eggs I've ever seen, and I gave her 7 of them. They seem to be sticking out a bit on the sides- is that ok? I guess with the weather being so warm right now, it won't matter too much if she's not covering 100%, right? I don't want to give her too many and have them suffer as a result.