Wish I could help but mine always have gone broody at floor level most of the time in a dog crate which I fence off from the others until the hen takes them outside the coop...usually on day three from when the first egg hatched. Then I take the fence away and the hen will take the chicks inside it when roosting time rolls around.
My latest hen is sitting on 16 eggs...who knows whose eggs they are...but she ignored the prepared floor level roosting crate, and the five nesting boxes (elevated) and sat on the nest made in a corner filled with pine shavings. I prepared a box for her, and a fence...and moved her into it yesterday.
I think chicks will follow their mother across burning coals if she calls to them and if she will use the ramp, then so with they.
My latest hen is sitting on 16 eggs...who knows whose eggs they are...but she ignored the prepared floor level roosting crate, and the five nesting boxes (elevated) and sat on the nest made in a corner filled with pine shavings. I prepared a box for her, and a fence...and moved her into it yesterday.
I think chicks will follow their mother across burning coals if she calls to them and if she will use the ramp, then so with they.
. he is oh though and she has up to 3 and they keep pecking at her eye should i just leave them alone or get them to stop???
