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    Bad mama hen??

    Forget hatching eggs. That's quite literally for the birds. I sniff tested those eggs twice a day and one still ruptured at some point between 3am and 5am this morning. I tossed the rest. This hen will just raise one baby this time around and that will be that!
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    Bad mama hen??

    Ok well upon sniffing them after work two more got tossed so now there are 6. I will sniff them as I turn them through the rest of the week and we will see if anything happens. Thanks!
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    Bad mama hen??

    Ok thanks. I did notice that one smelled a little funky when I was candling yesterday evening, and perhaps that is the one that burst overnight. Is this something that I should be checking daily as I turn them - do they go rotten that quickly? Or if they all smell OK, just keep turning and see...
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    Bad mama hen??

    We ended up with 5 dead chicks (1 fully hatched and wandered out of the coop without mama, and 4 only partially or just hatched and kicked out of the nest - still wet). And 1 living chick, who is doing just fine and Mama is being good with her. I now have 8 eggs in the house under a light...
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    Bad mama hen??

    Thanks for the response. I realized at the time that 20 was too many. But I didn't want to be the one who decided who lived and who died... I figured mother nature would take care of that. Anyhow - I would imagine that at least a few would hatch - but I suppose I will see. I know some are a few...
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    Bad mama hen??

    So 22 days ago I had a hen go broody. I've been keeping backyard chickens for 4 or 5 years now, and this is the first one to go broody on me. I also have a rooster because he was mistakenly identified as female when I bought a group of female chicks a couple years ago. Anyhow, I figured - OK -...
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