old chickens for hatching eggs

[alabamasteve]

Can I take my old chicken that have stopped laying and put them on the nest to hatch chicks? Will they go broody with no coaxing?

 

[chickenlver2013]

Can I take my old chicken that have stopped laying and put them on the nest to hatch chicks? Will they go broody with no coaxing?

They'll have to decide if they want to be a mother or not. You can't make a chicken hatch eggs. They decide if they want to.

 

[alabamasteve]

I guess if they decide not to, they go to the stew pot. Thanks