not 2 days & 1 chick dead 2 in box

[mom2to]

is it me or my chickens? does anyone else have this problem: my chickens would rather sit on their nest than call it good and show the chicks that hatched how to eat/drink. how soon do you throw away the "extra" eggs and make them see that's all the chicks they are getting? i had three hatch and one was on the ground outside dead, one was on the ground outside alive, and one was under the chicken still. i got the two chicks and put them in a box in the house and left her with her eggs.

pic of 2 chicks in box

 

[TwoCrows]

Not all hens make good mothers. Some do, some don't. And you can't teach the hens either. I have never tried hatching eggs under a broody, but many folks on here have. And many times the hens do exactly as you have described, sometimes killing the babies.

So I would raise these babies by yourself and let the hens "play house" without the real thing....chicks.