Black bantam has been disappearing for a week, finally found her hidey hole and she's sitting 7 eggs in a patch of nettles I was going to clear yesterday for the n'th time this year..
Quite apart from moving her to more appropriate secure home for any chicks that do hatch (and she's quite ferociously independent at the best of times, she's the one that took to roosting on a 2" wide and 6' high gatepost of the run long before I let them out of it), isn't it too late in the year for her to raise chicks temperature and weather wise?
She's been dissuaded from sitting once this year, so I'm thinking perhaps I should have let her get on with it back when she might have had a hope in the nice weather, but I can't see the best broody raising them now, especially given how small she is to provide heat if anything hatches..