My name is arran and I'm new to this site, so hello everyone, I keep chickens and have done for the last 9 months, me and my other half love animals and keeping chicken was our dream when we got our new house. We have 3 hybrids and 2 bantams and just got 3 more which are a Pekin bantam, cream legbar and a bahama.
I just wanted 2 know if anyone could tell me that one of my bantams have gone broody so I got sum fertile eggs and she has quite happily sat on them and has done now for 18 days now so I was wondering if i should move her out and the chicks when they hatch out of the coop and in2 another house and run on her own? and will she mind me doing that 2 her and the chicks?.
Also the 2 bantams i do have are both sharing 2 sit on the eggs so do I choose who is mum? thanx 4 ur time...

Hi arran welcome to the forum, you must be very excited as you should have your baby chicks due any day now.

In general it is better to separate the mother and her chicks off from the other birds into a protected coop & run for about two weeks so that they are safe from predators (including the other chickens). It is possible to keep them together with other birds where the other birds are very placid and tolerant birds but safer and easier in many ways to keep them separate. It helps with things such as the chicks separate feed not being eaten by all the other hens and parasite control as the brooding period is associated with a much higher incidence of mite and lice problems.

Why don't you have a look at our article for some further advice about how to deal with a broody hen:

The broody hen

Good luck with it, please post pics of you mother and baby chicks when they arrive.

Thankyou very much for the advice! Much appreciated! I will definately post some pics when we have our new arrivals!