Rural Gardening: Our little bantam Blue Cochin is sitting., 1 by TamaraFaye

TamaraFaye wrote:
a breeder told me yesterday that a good broody hen will set three batches in a row for you. three days before hatch, take a new batch of eggs out to her, bring the ones she set in & put the good ones in the hatcher.

i may give that a try! but i want to leave some for the hens to hatch, i think they would be such good mamas and deserve a little reward. there are two setting and two that want to, so i think they could handle the one big pile...