Moving Broody hen with 1 hatched chick and eggs??

[HerculesChicken]

HELP! we are not sure what to do. Do we move the hen in the same coop with other chickens to the ground (she is in a box 2 feet up, we werent expecting her to go broody and kind went with the flow).... OR do we move her to a completely different area with the chick and eggs???

I dont wanna loose the chick... but also dont want her to stop laying on the eggs... but also dont want other chickens to kill her.

AHH! What do we do?

 

[farnorth]

Can you put up a screen or mesh to keep them in the nest box for now? then after the eggs are done hatching pen off an area on the floor?

I wouldn't move her right now...she might abandon or trample the eggs if she gets upset.

If you move her to another building....Just don't do what I did last year. I put a broody and her chicks in a stall we sometimes used for horses.....they were fine for a week ....then a weasel got into the stall and took all the chicks. We didn't realize it wasn't just as secure as the coop.

 

[HerculesChicken]

so... we did try to move her. AND she abandoned the nest. I found baby outside in the middle of coop. Thankfully in time. She went back up high into a box, and we moved the eggs back up there. The baby we took inside under the heat lamp. Should we put the baby back under the mother up high???

UGH... I dont wanna lose the baby...

there is also one egg piping.

 

[farnorth]

After the next chick hatches I would slip the chick you now have in the house back under the hen in the middle of the night.