If most of them turn out to be boy's then you will have to have a talk with those girl's, because the hen decides the sex of the fertilized egg when it's layed.
IDK but the yolk is the food for the chick (from my understanding) so it would make sense that more food makes a bigger, stronger chick.
That may account for the fact that even if the egg's are all the same size, even some of the girl's will be a bit bigger then other's.
Well, it's now 6 out of 7 dark chicks with some yellow, one dark brownish one, and an eighth one pipping. I sure do hope they're not all boys.
Seven. One egg pipped this morning and was chirping earlier, but has not made any more progress. Another one rocks every so often, but no sign of a pip. When should I intervene?
If you have to help them you can. On the one that is rocking you might have to see where the the air-cell is is at and then carefully poke a small safe air hole for it. If the one that was hatching already made a hole, check to make sure that the membrane is still moist, and if it has dried carefully add a bit of water with your clean finger's to remoisten it.
That doesn't sound good.
