Broken Egg in Broody's Nest

[Paige3595]

I have my Wyandotte hen sitting on 14 eggs after she insisted on being broody. Well it's day 10 and one of the eggs broke in the nest which caused the other eggs in the nest to get covered in yolk. The nest is cleaned but the rest eggs are covered in dried up yolk, some worse than others. Anyone encounter this problem before? I'm not sure if I should leave it and see what happens or try to clean them a little bit? TIA

 

[DianaMallory]

Let nature take it's course.

 

[Pegmlee]

Well...what happened? I'm facing the same problem today, but I tried to clean my eggs off some. Only had 6 eggs to begin with. Hoping I will get one or two to hatch.

 

[Paige3595]

All the rest ended up hatching! I was so worried for nothing! I left them alone and she had 13 little babies running around, what a happy mama! She actually went broody for the second time, I only gave her 3 because I didn't really need any more babies, and they all hatched as well!

 

[mustangrooster]

All the rest ended up hatching! I was so worried for nothing! I left them alone and she had 13 little babies running around, what a happy mama! She actually went broody for the second time, I only gave her 3 because I didn't really need any more babies, and they all hatched as well!

Congratulations!!

And Welcome to BYC!