Where should my chicken hatch her eggs?!

[First time silkie mum]

Hello!

I have a lovely silkie sitting on 6 eggs, 10 days until they hatch! She has been sitting on her eggs in one of the boxes in the coop that has a ramp to get into the house . I’ve been worried that when the chicks hatch that they could fall off the ramp/out of the house so thought that moving the hen and eggs to another coop that is on the ground would be a better solution.

I have one other hen and they have never spent a night apart.... now I’m unsure if I should separate them? It’s winter here in Ballarat and the nights are cold. I moved her to the ground level coop and she’s happily sitting on her eggs but when she got out to eat/drink she went to go back to the old coop out of habit?! Should I have just left her/move her back to where she is used to and take the risk of them falling down the ramp?! Any suggestions would be wonderful!
Thank you

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Personally i let my hens brood wherever they decide to drop. They usually do a good job picking somewhere safe

*note I said usually. I had a hen so determined to best on my hay bales the nest actually made a hole in a bale that would have suffocated the chicks that unfortunately hatched in the bottom.

If you only have one other hen, you could probably just keep then all together, or you coyld do somerhibg to ehere only wire seperates the two. My babies with my cochin are in a seperate coop, but the flock is free all day to go over anf investigate the babies through the wire