There was an issue with our electric company the first part of the month, and there were dips and power surges like crazy. Ended up losing all the eggs in their last week of development, save two...a little Silkie who hatched a day late, and two days after that, an Ameraucana who managed to zip...
I look at it this way....one of our broody hens has a special hiding place where she will go and lay an egg every day or so until she feels she has a big enough clutch to try and hatch out. Then she disappears. Three weeks later she re-appears from her hiding place with over a dozen new...