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BayBay Peepers said:
I'll admit this hen spoils me. And she is just a great mama. She was only broody for a week when I brought these chicks home, she allowed me to stick them under her during the middle of the day, and allowed me to move them all the first night to their own private quarters. She took them back to their quarters every day until Saturday and now she just takes them to the coop. She integrates chicks into to the flock flawlessly. I hope she sticks around for along time. If I ever get a hen like her again it will be a miracle :)
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They are something to behold my Lavender Orpington same way she wasn't broody but 4 days when I put these 2 tiny bantam eggs under her and they weren't suppose to hatch for 4-5 days one hatched the first day and the other the next [someone wasn't keeping good track of their broody's] lol but Penny took to those little chicks like she had set 21 days. Being bantam worries me since the majority of my hens are LF I have 3 adult bantam hens and my rooster is game bantam. so i am just hoping and praying all will go well once mamas turn them loose.I love to watch those mamas and chicks.
 
@Miss Lydia & @BayBay Peepers Do you guys separate out your broody from the flock? I ask because our Cornish is right in one of the nestboxes in the main coop. My understanding is she might move before hatch or I should move her right before they hatch? This broody thing confuses me, I have read so many articles and some contradict others about how much you mess or move the broody.
 
COChix said:
@Miss Lydia & @BayBay Peepers Do you guys separate out your broody from the flock? I ask because our Cornish is right in one of the nestboxes in the main coop. My understanding is she might move before hatch or I should move her right before they hatch? This broody thing confuses me, I have read so many articles and some contradict others about how much you mess or move the broody.
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Mine always start out brooding in a nest box off the floor so around week 2 I move the whole nest box its a covered cat litter box to a stall, I have stalls for my Muscovy's [I use to have too many drakes] This is where she hatches them and where they still are now. My one hen with 3 week olds gets run of the chicken coop once everyone leaves in the morning my second mama gets run of the duck house after everyone clears out. We're having some work done on our house so to keep them all safe they are having to stay inside till late afternoon. I have picked up a broody and put her in a small dog crate moved her nest with eggs still in it used a flat shovel to another area after putting nest and eggs down put mama on top I keep her inside with door closed for 24 hrs after move. Only problem I have had with moving them is they always go back to where they started so I have to pick them up and carry them to their new nesting sight and eggs. Once eggs hatch they know where to go.
 

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