Putting eggs under hens during last week of incubation

[czsilverwolf]

I have a broody turkey hen that I got eggs for but only one out of 6 eggs that I bought has made it to the last week of incubation. I have been incubating the eggs inside my house due to extreme heat temps outside and the broody hen has a tendency to smash chicken eggs she steals from my chickens and sits on. I plan to bring the broody hen inside and let her hatch the egg by herself since the egg is due to hatch in 6 days. I do plan to watch her sit on some fake eggs for the first night just to make sure she stays broody and will sit on the egg before giving it to her. Has anyone done anything similar with any problems? I have seen a ton of posts of people that incubate the eggs all the way to hatch then doing the switcheroo with the day old chicks but I can't find anything about putting eggs under hens that were already mostly incubated.

 

[sourland]

I think that if you move her you run the risk of her breaking broodiness.

 

[czsilverwolf]

I think that if you move her you run the risk of her breaking broodiness.

I wish she would break broodiness. She has been broody since January so that's why I caved and tried to incubate some eggs for her and let her raise some chicks.

 

[Anime2lover]

I have moved eggs that are about to hatch under a groody like that. At least, a broody hen. Got 17 ducklings outta that.

 

[Molpet]

I have moved eggs ready to hatch in 3 days under several turkey hen with success... but I didn't move the hens