Agreed
I believe a hen has some intuition, but certainly not a super heightened sense of internal egg candling sonar ability.
You will see then throw out cracked eggs often, but then that same hen will break an egg mid-brood and leave it.
Seems like they will get it in there heads to get...
I think you'll be totally safe there. I have some Seramas almost on lockdown and have been running 20 to 30 as a test. Everything looks great so far with nice air sacs.
Yeah that's too many. She could certainly do it, but you run a risk of space being taken up by non viable eggs AND ultimately if they do hatch, that's a lot of chicks to look after.
Id candle and keep 6 under her and put the remainder in the incu
Usually in the dark eggs you can see a little bit of the air cell in a developing egg. If there is an air cell at all, that means you are or were in business. In terms of tracking the development of a Maran egg, nearly impossible.
If you are just putting a head lamp up to it, you are going to...