Thank you! I can't wait!Great picture! Good luck with your hatch!
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Thank you! I can't wait!Great picture! Good luck with your hatch!
Update a week later, the Sebright pullet on 3 eggs is on day 10, make some provision to seal off the nest area from the other
The poor little thing My paulina didn't get included in the hatching of the eggs she was helping sit on, she just carried on sitting there by herself (I have stuck some eggs under her because I felt sorry for her, hopefully they are still there, because she bites and I can't really check on them. )and decided to hoard/hatch her own.
Pls help!
I'm very new at this and am devastated with what has happened this morning....
I read here somewhere that you can do a float test to see if there are any duds in with her other eggs. We have 4 chicks now and nothing has hatched in the last 4 days. So I removed the sinkers thinking they were duds but after cracking them open I could see that they were not. So stopped and returned them to mom.
Any and all advice is much appreciated
Thanks
There is a sticky here that says to do the float test to see if eggs are viable. There is so much conflicting things in here. Can chickens lay bad eggs?The float test is administered to eating eggs to see if they've gone bad, not to hatching eggs. You can candle the eggs to see if there is anything inside them. Go into a dark room and hold a flash light to the egg with your hand wrapped around the edge of the light to prevent light from shining around the edges. At this point, if all you can see is solid black, there is a chance the eggs could hatch. If you can see light inside the egg, it is a dud.
I gave one of my hens 8 eggs earlier this year. I candled them all early on (7 days into incubating) and I could see veins developing and small wiggly shadows. A few days before hatching I tried candling a couple of the eggs and couldn't see any light inside the shell (except in the air pocket at one end of the egg) the chicks were too big to let light in. One day 7 of the eggs hatched. 24 hours after the last egg hatched I candled the remaining egg and I could see light all through the egg. It wasn't much more developed than when I candled it the first time.