different age eggs

  1. Backyardtut

    Broody egg hoarder hen! Let her hatch all of them of or downsize?

    My bantam hen has managed to collect 16 eggs. Only 4 are her own. I was going to allow her to hatch her own 4 and was reluctantly going to allow her to hatch another 4 that were in the same stages of development.. but in the passing week she has managed to take in more eggs from other layers—...
  2. M

    Late hatch = odd chick out

    Two bantam sisters have been sharing a clutch. Now they have two babies a few days old and abandoned the rest of the eggs. Took this eggs to the incubator and now we have one chick so far. Tried to introduce it to the hens and idk maybe because the chick is a completely diff color from the other...
    • mict1g2
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    • abandoned eggs different age eggs late hatchers pecking at babies
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  3. LyndaNks

    buff orph. first time broody..sitting on different age eggs

    Any advice is appreciated, thanks in advance. I have a 1st time broody buff orph. laying on a clutch of eggs right now and it is day 26 (today Monday) and only 1 chick has hatched (on Sunday morning). The day we noticed she started laying we put it on the calendar and then 2 days later we saw...
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