She left them now, I cracked them open and blood came out 😢 . So just one Christmas chick for me ☹️ hopefully a pullet! Im guessing the infertility is due to rooster molting 🤔 I've had a bad go with infertility last season with previous rooster so was hoping for good many hatches this season! I...
The other 2 haven't hatched yet 😢, I've never had any eggs not hatch (if fertile ofcourse) I candled them and they are black and I can't see anything but black inside so not sure if dead? So I left them under her but she may give up on them and look after just the 1 chick I guess.
Unfortunately only 1 hatched, other 2 eggs haven't started pipping so maybe dead already? Not green or smelly so I'll leave them for another day.
Knowing my luck it will be a single chick boy and Chickaletta will waste 6 months of not laying to raise it ☹️
Looks like my roosters fertility rate isn't good, he is molting now so not sure if that's got something to do with it?
Possible 3 eggs looking like chicks inside.. maybe 2 though I couldn't quite tell on the 3rd one.
A little annoying, wish I had 12 hatching 😟 it seems not worth a broody off lay...
:hitAnyone hatched poopy eggs!??
Chickaletta always keeps a sparkly clean nest but today everything was covered in poop!! Maybe her old age is making her not able to keep her usual standard of cleanliness? I had a few words with her! :rant
3 of them I threw out, they were too yucky, but they...
Oh really! Is she out in the bush?-Have you moved her now to a safer brooding place? ...Maybe you could candle the eggs? Hopefully they are fertile and hatch soon! :jumpy