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Thanks for your help @hysop and @DobieLover So far I have just left the eggs in the incubator, but I'm thinking about moving half at lockdown (not having all your eggs in one basket and all that). I actually had two broody at the same time but broke the first one by trying to move her...

I would say she's been broody for 2-3 days so far (so will have had a good two weeks by the time the eggs are due to hatch), she is young ( only 7 months or so) and it is the first time she's been broody, but she is a pekin (bantam coochin) so genetically predisposed to it. I would need to move...

So I purchased 12 eggs recently (in Australia so height of summer here) and only 3 went anywhere. 1 blood ring, so two made it to lockdown but neither hatched (on eggtopsy hadn't absorbed yolk or internally pipped at all). After noting that I only had 2 viable chicks on day 10 candeling I got...