YIKES! I hear peeping under my broody! What do I do?

[AnnieSantiago]

So she won't smother the chicks sitting on them?
I hear peeping coming from under my hen.

This morning, I pulled a dead, half-hatched chick from under her.
Don't really want to bother her again, but don't want the chicks to smother?

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I'd like to keep the chicks with the hen. Can I move mom and chicks right after they hatch? I have a service area I can put them in temporarily. I'd like to move them right now BEFORE they hatch, but I don't want mom abandoning them.

If you are afraid of mom abandoning her brood, leave mom alone too. It is now too late to make major changes.