Storybook Farm
Songster
I am getting ready to incubate for the first time and have been collecting eggs from our backyard flock, storing at correct temps., turning, and weighing, etc., and I'm just wondering why clutches under broody hens don't take weeks to hatch?
We had a hen go broody last year. Once she sat down on that nest, she hardly got up. Since we collect eggs daily, I just know that she was both setting and laying for a week or two since she eventually had 10 eggs under her. If the hen's body heat triggers chick development, and a hen lays an egg per day, and lets say she has a ten-egg clutch, then how do they hatch out near each other? Just wondering...
We had a hen go broody last year. Once she sat down on that nest, she hardly got up. Since we collect eggs daily, I just know that she was both setting and laying for a week or two since she eventually had 10 eggs under her. If the hen's body heat triggers chick development, and a hen lays an egg per day, and lets say she has a ten-egg clutch, then how do they hatch out near each other? Just wondering...
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