Broody hen setting on too many eggs?

[Shellbrown]

I have a broody silkie laying on alot of eggs .Her eggs and another hens eggs and my myran actually goes back in the pen to lay her egg every day so the silky is actually laying on at least 15 eggs small and big to where she can't even cover them all.In the past 2 weeks I have seen her only twice off of them and only a few minutes so I leave her food and a lid of water every morning .My question is will some actually hatch and what to do if so? Being at least 14 days now should I check them at least twice a day ? What do I do if any start hatching?

 

[HumbleAmerican]

The ones laid after she started setting may not hatch. 24-48 hours after first chick hatches mommas typically walk off and leave the rest.

If you have an incubator you may be able to salvage more. Any more hatched the day she comes off the nest can be put under her at roost time that evening. Past that the maturity rate of chicks will have wobbly newborns being left behind/abandoned too.

 

[raingarden]

Our free-range bantams can hatch fifteen eggs in a clutch. It's usually a community clutch for two or three hens. However, they have trouble covering and protecting fifteen chicks after the first few days. They don't seem to be able to successfully raise but about half that number

 

[Shadrach]

Leave her to it. Make sure she gets off the nest every day to eat, bath and drink.
She will probably as mentioned above leave the nest with those chicks that hatch in the first 24 to 36 hours and leave the partly hatched and unhatched eggs behind.
The probability is some of the chicks she does hatch will die in the first few weeks. That's normal

 

[Shellbrown]

Our free-range bantams can hatch fifteen eggs in a clutch. It's usually a community clutch for two or three hens. However, they have trouble covering and protecting fifteen chicks after the first few days. They don't seem to be able to successfully raise but about half that number

Thank you

 

[Shellbrown]

Leave her to it. Make sure she gets off the nest every day to eat, bath and drink.
She will probably as mentioned above leave the nest with those chicks that hatch in the first 24 to 36 hours and leave the partly hatched and unhatched eggs behind.
The probability is some of the chicks she does hatch will die in the first few weeks. That's normal

Thank you.

 

[Shellbrown]

Leave her to it. Make sure she gets off the nest every day to eat, bath and drink.
She will probably as mentioned above leave the nest with those chicks that hatch in the first 24 to 36 hours and leave the partly hatched and unhatched eggs behind.
The probability is some of the chicks she does hatch will die in the first few weeks. That's normal

Thank you.

 

[Yardmom]

Mark the current eggs, so you can remove any eggs that have been added. If she is not covering all the eggs well candle and remove eggs that are no longer viable. If she cannot cover all the eggs, the eggs that are good could get rotated out and get to cold.

 

[Shellbrown]

Mark the current eggs, so you can remove any eggs that have been added. If she is not covering all the eggs well candle and remove eggs that are no longer viable. If she cannot cover all the eggs, the eggs that are good could get rotated out and get to cold.

Thank you so much.