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Nature, instinct. Why is it that a chicken's incubation period is 21 days usually but they will sit on pea eggs until they hatch. Wouldn't she just abandon the eggs once there has been 21 days? Why is it that a turkey hen will sit on chicken eggs and won't leave the nest until all the eggs that will hatch hatch?
 
Birdrain92 said:
Nature, instinct. Why is it that a chicken's incubation period is 21 days usually but they will sit on pea eggs until they hatch. Wouldn't she just abandon the eggs once there has been 21 days? Why is it that a turkey hen will sit on chicken eggs and won't leave the nest until all the eggs that will hatch hatch?
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We all know you will choose to believe what YOU want to believe and I have no desire to be drawn into another debate with you, so this will be my last post on this subject. A week old egg and a 5 minute old egg are the exact same neither has any development in them. I have set 12 day old eggs along with 1 day old eggs, I did nothing special for them and they hatched at the same time. Why? Because neither one started to develop until they reached the required temperature, the 12 day difference meant nothing. I have seen hens "Try out" a nest, they will lay and then sit for an hour or two, but they then got up and returned to their perch, once all eggs were laid they actually got serious about it and stayed put, this didn't hurt the eggs and I believe they were not on the nest long enough to warm the egg to the required temperature. I have had hens who sat for 40 days and had no eggs hatch, I had to take the eggs from them for their own good or they would have continued to sit indefinitely, this is well documented in chickens as well. Why didn't those hens know that the eggs under them were duds? Because instinct will keep them sitting until something hatches that's all. Number of days, species, nothing matters primitive brain says "stay put". What you are attributing to your duck and other hens requires complex thought, reasoning and some problem solving skills, Anything but nature and instinct. Unfortunately those are not something poultry is capable of. And to point out the obvious, chickens cannot count to 21 or 28, and eggs do not have little alarm bells that go off when they are due to hatch, so the bird just stays sitting. Why do you think people use ceramic decoy eggs to keep broody hens broody?
 
Birdrain92 said:
Nature, instinct. Why is it that a chicken's incubation period is 21 days usually but they will sit on pea eggs until they hatch. Wouldn't she just abandon the eggs once there has been 21 days? Why is it that a turkey hen will sit on chicken eggs and won't leave the nest until all the eggs that will hatch hatch?
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Sweet heart i got broody hens over here that have never left the nest with chicks or golf balls, they are feathers incubators that i never turn off till mid winter, i can put anything under them and they will sit but if i do not pull the eggs some of them will peck a chick when it hatches out
 
I candled my first batch of eggs from my birds and 10/10 are developing, they are on day 9 and I can see them moving already.
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However one has a UFO in it,
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that would be an "Unidentified Floating Object" little dark speck, really dark, that just floats around as I turn the egg. It is totally separate from the embryo and from the yolk, anybody seen one of these before? Is this perhaps one of your Meat chunks Zaz?
 
zazouse said:
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Floating dark spot, sure it ain't the eye? that is the next thing you see after blood veins develop
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Definitely not the eye, it is a pretty see thru egg shell and I can see the embryo clear as a bell. This thing is darker than the embryo and stick shaped.....long and narrow and it moves as you turn the egg, the embryo stays put. I may try to get a picture of it, not sure if it will show up or not. It's not something I've seen before????
 
Perhaps it is a worm, i have read where chicken hens have layed eggs with worms in them even saw someone post about a rubber band in the their egg never did figure that one out
 

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