[Roxy]

I have a lovely blue laced bantam.  She decided to go broody and sit in a little hut down the field.  Some of the other hens lay in there too.  Every day I would put my hand under the bantam and get bitten!!  and remove her egg, and also the hens eggs.  In the end I left one bantam egg, but kept on removing the hen eggs from under her - tended to do it quick, to avoid a good pecking, and each day the bantam egg would get rolled about as I  grabbed the other eggs.
 
I never imagined this one egg would hatch, given the treatment it had ....it would roll out of the nest as I grabbed the other eggs, and the bantam would push it back under her.  Well, yesterday, I put my hand under as usual, grabbed the eggs .....then realised I had not felt the little egg.  Thinking it had finally got broken with the rough treatment it had, I  felt under her again, and no egg, but there was something else in its place!!!
 
Yes, against the odds, a chick has hatched

[Bert]

well done to mum and the new arrival 

[Bionic]

Awww, thats sweet. 
I have a broody hen at the moment. Despite there being more than one nest the others lay in the same box. They sit on top of her. Each day I collect their eggs and she seems to be quite happy to let me take them.
Sally

[Mammyshaz]

That's a lovely story. Finally she got what she wanted piccies when you can 

[sabrina]

One very lucky little chick. 

[in the hills]

Well done, Mother Hen 
 
Broody bantams do mean business.