FunClucks
Crowing
She did awesome!!! She ended up hatching out two chicks, and then I thought she had left the nest, so I put the peeping eggs into the incubator for a day (left fake eggs in the nest), and the next morning had one more little one. That afternoon an hour or so before bed, I took the chick out to the broody and shoved it under her. The chick was peeping because it was cold, and she started bawking at it before she could even see it. I put the chick under her, pulled out the fake eggs which she had gone back to sitting on, the chick got warm, and everyone was quiet. She accepted that chick with no issues whatsoever. But also, she's never pecked me or given me any trouble for reaching under her and messing with her eggs. When she's not on the nest she doesn't want to be messed with, but if I insist she tolerates me touching her and picking her up. I haven't got a hand on the babies since then though.How did you broody end up doing?
I'm not entirely sure she had left the nest, but the eggs were cold so I rescued them. I think if all the eggs had been set at the same time, there wouldn't have been any issues. I am glad I put more eggs under her though, two of the chicks hatched from the second set of eggs I put under her. We had one develop half way and quit, and the others were not fertile.
She's been a good mom. Even though she was in the lower end of the pecking order, once we opened up her enclosure, and all the other chickens came to check it out, whenever they got close to the chicks she would beat them up. She would peck, and jump on their backs, and pull their neck feathers. She even went at it with the head hen and won. She doesn't seem to mind if they peck her, but if they get near her chicks, it's on. They're 3 weeks or so now, and she's still caring for them, and the other chickens mostly leave them alone. I'm pretty pleased, and would let her hatch again.
Still trying to get the pics off my phone.