Anyone had success after a broken egg in nest???

[Minky]

Wondering if those of you who have had a broody hen break an egg and yolk get all over the other eggs

--- who has had success with these eggs after washing them?

---who has started over fresh and has the broody hen stuck to the added 21 days??

--who has had success by leaving the eggs covered in yolk??

thanks

 

[red horse ranch]

An egg that will be incubated or under a broody should not be washed. This removes the natural protective coating on the egg. Egg yolk on the eggs can be mostly removed with a dry steel wool scrubber. If the yolk is left on it seals the pores that allow oxygen into the developing chick. This may save some of the eggs but probably not all of them. I have cleaned turkey eggs this way and some of them hatched.

If a hen is truly broody she will keep setting on the eggs even if you remove dirty eggs and start fresh. If she isn't far along with the eggs that is what I would do. Be sure to clean out the dirty bedding too since that will harbor bacteria.

 

[Flynntribe2910]

An egg that will be incubated or under a broody should not be washed. This removes the natural protective coating on the egg. Egg yolk on the eggs can be mostly removed with a dry steel wool scrubber. If the yolk is left on it seals the pores that allow oxygen into the developing chick. This may save some of the eggs but probably not all of them. I have cleaned turkey eggs this way and some of them hatched.

If a hen is truly broody she will keep setting on the eggs even if you remove dirty eggs and start fresh. If she isn't far along with the eggs that is what I would do. Be sure to clean out the dirty bedding too since that will harbor bacteria.

 

[Flynntribe2910]

Oops didn’t mean to copy your posting accidentally resent it lol sorry