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For the last 3 hours, there has been a barred rock sitting on my austrolorps nest. The barred rock screams at me when I get close to her- but my Austrolorp is still in this coupe with her... I don't know what's even going on with them anymore!!!! Gahhhhh!!!!'

I have checked on her twice this morning. Both times she was in the coupe, but standing in the corner.... Not sitting on her eggs. Her eggs are cold to the touch. That's at least 2 1/2 hours she hasn't been on them. Or even outside with the other chickens :(

I Can see the "spot" where an embryo is starting. But that's all I can make out in the eggs. I have 6 roosters with my flock, and before she went broody, I saw her mate daily. So I'm not worried about them being fertile. But I'm just worried because shouldn't they be developed more by now? It's...

I will keep this updated with my girl! I hope she works hard!! I have high hopes for this clutch- I have a variety of beautiful roosters whom she mates with. Her "boyfriend" is a blue orphington though

Thank you for responding. How many eggs do you recommend me leaving her? Also, could I smell the bad eggs through the shell? Or only of I crack it.

Could somebody give me some advice?! I had a hen go missing a little over 2 weeks ago. Today, I found her secluded sitting on a whopping 17 eggs! She is a black Austrolorp. She covered all but 1 egg( which was ice cold). I cracked it, and only a small spot where life began to develop. I...

It is dark now, so I just candled her eggs. She was on 17 eggs total!!! She covered all but one egg comfortably. The one lonesome egg was ice cold. I removed it from the nest. All eggs(except the one I removed), were viable. But only showed early signs? I would take a picture but I used the...

Hello! So I have a 9 month old black Austrolorp, and about 3 weeks ago she looked like she started to molt. She also hadn't given me any eggs in a week. So I figured that was all it was. But a few days after that she went missing. I have only seen her twice in the last couple weeks. I've even...