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1st chick due tomorrow under broody hen. I examined the egg and see no signs of a pip. When does the pip happen?

She is a golden sex link. She is 7 months old. She only laid eggs for about a month then went broody. I have some food and water in her nest with her. Although I may take them out, she keeps pulling the food dish under her and is trying to sit on it. When do chicks start to pip?

pyxis is is correct, originally Flaps was sitting on only one egg then 3 days later, the others were laid and sat on. Then the last 5 days after the 1st. I do not have an incubator. If I take the first egg out after it hatches and keep it in the brooder till the next three hatch,will she hatch...

Oh, the rooster is a barred rock and the eggs are either rhode island reds or barred rocks or a combo of the two. Flaps (broody hen) hasn't laid an egg herself in over a month. Thank you.

Hello everyone! I am new to chickens and this amazing website. We got our first chicks back in March. Got our first egg August 15th. My golden sex link went broody and started stealing eggs. So we ate letting her hatch her first batch now. Egg 1 was laid Sept 15, egg 2,3,4 were laid sept 18...