I had 6 remaining eggs, candled and viable at day 14, under a broody. On day 21:
1 hatched fine
1 hatched with an umbilical hernia
Day 22 after broody hen abandoned nest with 2 live chicks, I cracked open the eggs:
2 were sloshing with fluid and had quit before developing further
2 had developed to hatch, but died at internal pip.
The internally pipped ones I am confused about. Did they die from cold after being abandoned? (It was only a few hours on a sweltering 32°C day) and if so why did they take so long and not shell pip?
Did they just die in the shell and then she abandoned them, perhaps when they stopped peeping? Seems odd. They were different breeds too.
Any ideas?
1 hatched fine
1 hatched with an umbilical hernia
Day 22 after broody hen abandoned nest with 2 live chicks, I cracked open the eggs:
2 were sloshing with fluid and had quit before developing further
2 had developed to hatch, but died at internal pip.
The internally pipped ones I am confused about. Did they die from cold after being abandoned? (It was only a few hours on a sweltering 32°C day) and if so why did they take so long and not shell pip?
Did they just die in the shell and then she abandoned them, perhaps when they stopped peeping? Seems odd. They were different breeds too.
Any ideas?