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Christie Rhae is right. You really don't want to add eggs. The hatching can be staggered enough even when they are all set the same day. I also recommend marking the eggs and even isolating the nest if possible because your other hens may try to keep adding to the clutch. The coming and going can also result in broken eggs. (Been there, done that.) Treat your broody mama just like an incubator. Set the eggs and leave her alone. Don't mess with her or the eggs!
Good luck!!!
She sure is! lol... She will be even cuter when she fluffs up! What kind? Wheaten?Look who showed up 2 days early
My first Ameraucana. Isn't she sweet.
- Karen
great question.
uote: I would not put a new egg under her more than a day or two later. Otherwise the eggs that started developing first will all hatch and the ones you put under her later may get abandoned. Not that I have hatched eggs with a broody beforebut sometimes when I set eggs and the next day get another egg that I really wanted I will pop it in with the first batch.
I suppose if you have a really devoted momma she will sit those couple extra days and wait for the late ones?
Christie Rhae is right. You really don't want to add eggs. The hatching can be staggered enough even when they are all set the same day. I also recommend marking the eggs and even isolating the nest if possible because your other hens may try to keep adding to the clutch. The coming and going can also result in broken eggs. (Been there, done that.) Treat your broody mama just like an incubator. Set the eggs and leave her alone. Don't mess with her or the eggs!
Good luck!!!
