hi so i have a hybrid layer type hen that has been broody for roughly a week, and ordered an assortment of 6 bantam hatching eggs which arrived yesterday and are currently sitting until this evening when i was planning on giving them to her. she is about 4 years old and has been broody previously (but we never gave her any fertile eggs), so far so good. but... i have found one of my new pekin/cochin bantam hens (which only started laying a month or so ago) broody and quite aggresive in a nest box earlier, although she may just be pretending as another one was pretending a few days ago. the chicks if i keep any would, when adult, live in the "bantam community" as i have a banty run, and a standard size hen run.
so my question is, would it be better to let the banty hen hatch them (if she is broody) or if i should play it safe and give them to the standard size which is extremely comitted to her ceramic eggs at the moment, and then when the chicks are 8-10 weeks put the ones im keeping into the banty pen? by the way the hen would raise the chicks away from the rest of the flock.
so my question is, would it be better to let the banty hen hatch them (if she is broody) or if i should play it safe and give them to the standard size which is extremely comitted to her ceramic eggs at the moment, and then when the chicks are 8-10 weeks put the ones im keeping into the banty pen? by the way the hen would raise the chicks away from the rest of the flock.
