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She abandoned them. I cracked them open and found blood so at least she was incubating them appropriately.

When people talk about abandoning the nest what does that entail? I put 8 eggs under a broody hen last Saturday. She got off them and went into the yard the first day for a few hours, another hen went in and laid an egg there and broke one of the fertile eggs. Every day she leaves the next...

We have a Buff Orpington that is always broody. We decided to get her some fertile eggs and this weekend the temps dropped to -8F. We put the eggs under her Saturday afternoon and Sunday she got off the eggs for a few hours to go outside. It's typical that we finally get her the eggs she...