URGENT HELP..Incubtor vs broody

[Englishchick]

Hello
so I have had 4 hybrid hens since May this year.
One went broody so I bought 6 fertile eggs from eBay. Seemed only one was developing from the 6 and on day 19 my hen sadly crushed the fertile egg. I left the others and got some chicks for her (the chicks were six days old but all I could get.) She took to the chicks straight away and pretty much stopped sitting on the eggs. Today is day 22 and I put the eggs in a really cheap tiny incubator to candle tonight and then bin. Really didn't expect anything but just wanted no regrets. just gone to candle, no breaks in any but I can hear cheaping from one of the eggs.
WOAH
So, should I leave the egg in the incubator? there is no humidity measure, it's just water in the bottom. CUrrently set at 38C but I don't know how accurate that is.
Or slip the egg under my broody? It's her first time brooding and she hasn't hatched anything. IM in the Uk and it's 10pm at night. she now has her week old adopted three chicks with her.
I feel so nervous!!
thanks for any advice anyone can give.

 

[Golden Brahma 64]

I thought the broody left the nest with her chicks ?
Do you have another broody hen ?

 

[Englishchick]

Hi, thanks for your response. I just have the one. She left the eggs and they were pretty cool this afternoon when I took them out. But she's settled down for the night now with her chicks, hence I thought putting egg back might be an option?

 

[Broodygranny]

Wont she just get up and leave the eggs in the morning?

 

[Golden Brahma 64]

Best put them in an incubator.
You can try to introduce them to her after they hatch.

It’s too risky putting them under her, she’s in chick mode now!

 

[Englishchick]

Ah, I see. Sorry, I'm so new to this. ok, so I'll just leave in incubator and hope!

 

[Englishchick]

Thank you so much, but how am I going to sleep now!?
Lol x

 

[Golden Brahma 64]

Thank you so much, but how am I going to sleep now!?
Lol x

Has the chick in the egg externally pipped yet ?
@KikisGirls

If you can hear cheaping than the chick has internally pipped.
An internal pip is when the chick has broken through the airsack.

An external pip (can happen anytime from 12-24 hours after internally pipping) is when the chick starts cutting its way out of the shell.

 

[Morrigan]

Whether you put an egg under her and it hatches, or give her a newly hatched chick, there is a chance she will reject it. Some hens will refuse to take in chicks after they have left the nest, as they assume they are not "their" chicks.

I had a hen who like that. She left eggs in the nest after she had taken her hatchlings off the nest. I popped them in the incubator and they hatched a couple of days later. She wanted nothing to do with those chicks. I put them under her at night, but as soon as the chicks emerged from under her in the morning she aggressively drove them away. They looked just like the others, but she knew somehow.

I've heard of hens, however, who continued to take in late hatching chicks. It all depend on your hen. Just have a plan in place to brood the little one if she refuses it.