Okay, forget "lockdown". It should be day 21 and I just put the eggs into my Nesco. . . .

Roaster. Now what do I do.

How we got here:

My Australorp hen, Hilda went broody and sat on a clutch of two chicken eggs and two wooden eggs. The day I noticed her setting, I removed the wooden eggs and inserted three eggs from that day's laying.

She has sat and cared for the eggs until day 21 for her two. The first hatched yesterday early and I found the chick out of the nest. The second was hatching most of yesterday while I watched her. When it got dusk, I left with the chick nearly out of the egg. This morning the egg and dead chick was rolled to the side of the nest. Hilda was still sitting on the three eggs I added a day later - as well as one that sneaked in before I thought to mark the eggs.

I'm figuring she wasn't cut out for motherhood so I took the eggs and put them in my Nesco. Right now I'm watching the temp, hoping to get it regulated to stay about 99 degrees. What else can I do?

I'm running back and forth checking the temp, so I'll be back sasp for all the help ya'll can muster.

Thanks in advance!

I think I have the temperature at a relatively constant 100 degrees.

I wet some towels and put them down over the wire lifter to keep the whole thing above the roaster bottom which I thought may be more unevenly heated.

I know Hilda was moving her eggs around in the nest yesterday so leaving them in place is something I can only start now on the day they should start hatching - or hatching tomorrow at the latest.

I sure would like some corrective advice if I'm doing something wrong here.