Need help on letting hens go broody and hatching their own eggs. Any of you guys do that?

[user 7704]

When my satellite is having weather problems, mine sends multiples too

 

[Maverick]

No doubt about her broodiness. Her feathers stay ruffled when I pick up her eggs. She's been trying to hatch a golf ball. She was broody last month too. She has baby fever.

Unfortunately I don't think even with a rooster that golf ball going to hatch

 

[user 7704]

Found her with 3 eggs today. I marked them and am just going away for 25 days. If the haven't hatched, I'll toss the eggs.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Last week I opened up the meat chicken coop and let them out. At first they wouldn't come outside. And then they wouldn't leave the front of the coop. Now they're running all over the place.
Today I finished their automatic waterer. I set up a 55 gallon barrel outside the coop and ran PVC pipe to the inside. Then I drilled a couple holes in the pipe and attached two cup waterers.
I have another length of PVC pipe out side the barrel that a garden hose is attached to for filling the barrel. At the bottom of the barrel I installed a valve that I can use to fill their outside waterer. It can also be used to drain the barrel for winter.
When I get another barrel I'll do the same setup for the hen house.