Thanks Marina. Yes 90 minutes she was off today and then got muddled and went back in the old chook run. I've said to my husband we need to chook wire a lid on the enclosure to stop her flying over the top to visit her friends. She then got in the regular nesting box, not back in the brooder box - hence me needing to completely roof her pen. She's a bit silly.
There's no space in the nest box for the wee araucana to get in with the GLW, the GLW takes up the whole space pretty much. She's snuggly in there. If she's off it and the araucana is off it, who knows what will happen.
The poor araucana is desperate to be an egg and I have araucana eggs. She was so disappointed when I removed the Light Sussex egg from her today and she'd really buried it in her feathers so I couldn't find it (up inside her 'wing pit' feathers in the end, she's crafty).
What happens to the babies if they are all in the same enclosed area with their mums? The mums don't go for the babies that aren't theirs do they?
The lady who sold us the eggs said to put them under tomorrow morning to give them time to rest. They arrived here at 1pm. I was hoping to do it around 9pm tonight to give them resting time. I'm a bit conflicted as I wanted to do it while the hens were sleepy.