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Thanks! But we actually took the two away before.. so now there are still 9 eggs under her! Do you think that leaving them all under her would hurt the chances??

Thank you for your response! So which eggs should I keep? I don't know much about candling but all but the three seemed viable...Do you know much about candling.. or what to look for?

I'm fairly new at the whole chicken business, so any info would be great! We live in MN so we keep our 2 girls (Americana and Silkie) in our coop near the house and recently (May1st) put in one of our nice roos with the girls in hopes to get some fertile eggs. My silkie went broody almost...

Just something I wanted to add... I'm new at this (obviously) but it has been great to let the chickens out to "free range" in our yard without any fences and so on... they will go on the slip and slide and pool side with them! It's been a great experience that I wish could keep on going...

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We have raised 18 baby chicks (big now) and have/had 5 adult layers. We're just starting out on 20 acres with 4 young kids and we are NEW to this! Two weeks ago we saw feathers everywhere on the side of our house, no bones or blood... and figured it to be a fox, wolf or coyote. Ten gone all...