Are they quitters? Day 16.

[abanjaf]

You can't always detect movement in viable eggs. I had 10 out of 11 eggs that hatched. When I went into lockdown, I candled them for the last time and could only detect movement in two of the eggs, but yet wound up with 10 active fuzzbutts!

 

[NicInNC]

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I'm really hoping that the one makes it. The other two...I'm 99% sure that they're quitters. They haven't changed at all and I can barely move them and it looks like dark liquid sloshing around. Plus, all the veining is looking stringy and it too moves. Oh, and the air pocket hasn't changed in days.

Keep your fingers crossed! I hate to get my hopes up but I would love at least ONE to hatch.

 

[Kiwibird]

I had a cage that two broodies in a row refused to sit in. Then I put an old piece of carpet over it to add a larger shaded area, as it was summer, and broody number two decided she would sit after all. She still wouldn't sit in the part designed as a nest box, so I wondered if it was actually too small. She just sat under the carpet on the ground, as happy as could be.

So if a broody won't sit somewhere, it may not be the isolation that bothers her. It may be the environment on offer. Just a thought.

 

[UGAchick]

Good luck!! I am looking forward to a happy update!!!

 

[NicInNC]

Thanks UGAchick. I'm a nervous wreck because I hear that banties come early usually. Today is day 19! I candled for the final time last night and removed one of the questionable ones and opened it because mom was not laying on it. It was off to the side of her. It obviously quit developing sometime last week. That makes me so sad because when I candled last week all three have movement.

It was only the size of a cashew.

 

[Britney]

My broody would always toss the bad eggs that she was setting on. But for some odd reason she wouldn't toss the golf balls that was under her. Good luck. LOL