Please Help!!!! i need a chicken expert

[josaphine32]

I have 3 pullet bantams and 1 cockral, 1 of the pulletts has gone all broody again and is sat on eggs, Is it too late in the year to let her sit on the eggs that has been laid today, I tried to move her earlier and realised she was sat on 2 eggs, Is this the wrong time to let her sit on them or should i remove them, She seems hell bent on sitting on them but i am just a little concerned on the weather at the moment,but I do have a different coop that i can transfer her to, also if i let her sit on them at this time of year would i be able to rehome them free, when they are around 8 weeks old january/febuary time, or is it just a spring thing that people want 8 week old chicks.

any advice would be great,
Thanks

[Kleiber]

Personally, I wouldn't let her sit at this time of year. A gamekeeper friend of mine says "blackberry birds" (i.e. those that hatch in the autumn) don't thrive well and the weather won't help either. I know this applies to game birds generally, but I would say the same applies to chickens. It's up to you, of course!
I guess folk will take chickens at any time of year, but why don't you keep them with their mum, if you do decide to let her sit, until they're a bit older, maybe approaching POL at 24-26 weeks, then at least they'll have had a good start in life and their new owners won't have to worry about raising young chicks. I don't let mine go till they're about 22-24 weeks.

[tamborine]

lots of chicks are raised under artificial heat & incubators throughout the year.

If you can move the hen under a heat lamp she and the chicks will thrive.

[josaphine32]

Thanks for your replies,
I have decided to removed the eggs but will let her sit on some in the spring.