Update - 5 of 6 eggs hatched. One was a dud, cracked it on the lawn and it was just an egg. WHEW!!! The single hen had the dud egg, so she has two babies. The co-mamas had 3 hatch and they were co-raising them for about two days, until the co-broody mama that we got at the flea market (and was not hand-raised by us) went all rooster on me. Attacked my hand and created a ruckus in the brooding cage. During the ruckus, she tried to bite me and took a chunk out of one of her babies instead. Mouthful of feathers and some flesh from the baby. That night, once it was dark, she went back to the coop with the other chickens. Mama-no-more. The back-up co-mama is doing fine with the chicks and it's much calmer in the pen. Baby chick got a couple of squirts of neo-to-go (neosporin) and healed up fine. I don't think the problem was caused by the second broody so much as it was in her nature to try to protect her babies from us. Our hand raised chickens have always let us have free access to their babies and never fuss. Everyone is doing fine now.
e after waiting 3 weeks she finaly has 3 lil barnyard mix chicks to raise. And my silkie sukie is now sitting on 5 silkie eggs, I snuck them under her on the 6th! 
