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    Longest incubation time under broody hen?

    Thanks, I feel bad for mama! It turned out that 2 out of the 4 eggs weren't fertilized, the other contained a fully developed chick and I'm not sure why they didn't make it out. It's still pretty cool here so maybe they didn't have the strength to pip. Now I'm focusing on getting mama out of...
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    Longest incubation time under broody hen?

    Ok, thank you for the input.
  3. K

    Longest incubation time under broody hen?

    I sadly found one dead chick (completely developed but I believe damaged by something externally) laying next to mama yesterday and candled the other 3 eggs. Two with thicker, darker shells I couldn't make anything out and one seemed dense on the larger end and hollow on the narrower but...
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    Longest incubation time under broody hen?

    Thanks, will the candling work with pretty dark brown shells? I didn't take a photo of the cracked egg, slipped it back under just in case.
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    Longest incubation time under broody hen?

    Our hen has been sitting on eggs for a full 24 days now...any suggestions on at what point I should pull the eggs? One egg (out of 4) appears to have been either pecked at or otherwise damaged from the outside and has a feather visible but no signs of life and nothing at all from the other 3 (I...
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