This is the state of the egg today... Worse cracks now... It doesn't smell and I don't really know how to tell if it is dead..... I might just take it out though, I do not want it cracking/exploding in my nest!!
Thanks! I'll see how it goes! How do I tell if the chick has died? Will there always be a blood ring? I'll regularly be doing a sniff test to make sure there aren't any bad smells, but still
Some time today while I was at work, some of my hens broke into my broody hen's nest and laid eggs in her nest. That is fine (I've now fixed the barrier so they can't break in again... However it seems that with hens climbing in and out all day, one of my eggs got cracked
It's just got a few...