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OK thanks. I appreciate that. She's moved off again and is showing her brood how to get water and food. They are eating a drinking. One egg she moved back into the original nest 2 other she left where she had moved to. Being that they have no signs of hatching I will assume they are duds. I will candle them again to see what's up though.Have you candled them again to see what they look like inside?
Sounds like the hen has determined they are duds.. and I essentially would have to take her word or in this case her actions in the matter for it.
There can be many reasons for them not to hatch.. I don't think that 7 was too many eggs even for a pullet.
Beings you had some hatch early.. it could be she runs a little hotter body temp.. part of the reason hatching has an approximate average length.
Sometimes I get 100% hatch with broodies and others not (same within the incubator even when it's dialed in the same for all hatches).. the eggs are not the same eggs perhaps in the same season and such.. there are many, many variables.
Even oviposition for the hen laying determines development level of the embryo and with eggs possibly coming from separate hens.. maybe blah blah blah blah.. my silly way of saying I know nothing but still having fun trying to share.