[Oliveview]

We have a broody hen, she is sitting on 3 eggs now.  I tried to put her in a different bit of the garden and shut her in the turkey ´house´ (we built it when the turkeys were new) but she managed to escape and somehow get over the 5´fence and put herself back in one of the nesting boxes in the hen house. 
I gave up and left her there with the 3 eggs under her.  This morning she was sitting in another nesting box!  Will the eggs be ok if she had left then for a few hours?  She is back in the nesting box giving me filthy looks if I go to collect eggs from the other nests
Maybe overnight it would be an idea to block off the other nests?
Pamela

[joyfull]

Pamela the eggs will be fine - last year one of my broodies got shut out of her broody coup for several hours and I still had a good hatch rate. I find when I move my broodies I shut them inside on the eggs in the afternoon and only open up again mid morning. If she keeps going back to her original area just keep placing her back on the eggs and shutting her in. Claudette one of mine kept doing the same this year but after about 4 times she eventually got the idea 

[Oliveview]

Thanks Joyfull
Pamela

[Oliveview]

Broody hen was on the eggs this morning, then a white leghorn hen came along and stood in front of henny and shouted at her..... the white leghorns need voice box removal- boy are they very noisy!  Henny went into a different box, I checked the eggs, white hen had cracked one   So now henny has 2 eggs to sit on.  I put henny back on the eggs and put some food right under her nose- she was eating a bit.  It won´t be long before the other hens realise there is food there!
Pamela

[GrannieAnnie]

Oh Pamela, I hope the eggs will be okay, how long til they are due to hatch?