Leghorn stole the nest

[BreeShu]

As the title says, I have a white leghorn who kicked my broody senior mutt mom off. She had already been sitting for over two weeks and had proven to be a good mom in the past. I noticed in the last two days, one of my younger leghorns has booted her and taken over. I'm not planning to interfere at this time but I am concerned as I've read leghorns are not great moms. This hen is young and flighty, she flees as soon as I enter the run. She has been so aggressive with my senior hen, ripping feathers out till she gives up the box and I can tell a couple eggs were crushed in the disputes. Should I just continue to keep watch over this final week or intervene and see if the senior will go back to constant sitting?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I always block off the nesting site to other hens if I'm going to let one set. Other hens will add eggs, and break them. If you can find a way to return the original hen to the nest I would. Hopefully you have been removing extra eggs, and if any eggs were broken you cleaned up the nest. Broken eggs can cause other eggs to die due to the bacteria growth, and that doesn't end well.