My silly broody (black marans, first timer) does wander off and forget where her eggs are. She often gets back up in the nesting box after eating/drinking, but gets into the wrong compartment. Her eggs have felt cool to the touch many times when I've checked on her. We don't actually need more chickens - she was just so broody that we wanted to give her some eggs to help her through that powerful, natural compulsion. I candled the eggs a couple days ago, thinking they must all be dead because of how often I had found them untended (I mean ... she has spent MOST of the time sitting on them these past almost 3 weeks, but they have definitely been left unattended more than I would have thought would be a good thing) ... Two of the eggs are completely empty and two are PACKED full, and you can see definite chick features in them, plus a big air space at the ends. So something has been developing. Tomorrow would be the first day we would expect to see hatching, if it would happen. Just wondering it poor brainless broody has taken good enough care to allow proper development and hatching... any thoughts?
