Broody serama

[Bennythechick]

I’m not 100% sure if this is the right thread to put this on but i figured it made sense....

So I have a 1 year old serama hen who has recently gone brooder for the third time since I got her back in January. She hasn’t managed to hatch any eggs. Her eggs always seem to die about a week before hatching. I’ve tried giving her eggs from the incubator that were already close to hatching and they still died. Anyone have any advice to help her?


Side note- I HAVE had very bad luck with her eggs. For a while she was my only one laying so I put every egg I got from her in the incubator. Like I said I got her back in January and she lays an egg everyday ,besides the times she was broody, so as you can imagine that’s a lot of eggs. And have only managed to hatch 5 babies. The first 3 were all hatched at different times as singletons. Unfortunately none of them made it. Since they were singletons they just didn’t really thrive. The last 2 are doing great and are now 5 weeks old. Not sure if she has low fertility and this is why the eggs aren’t hatching for her? Or something else? I did switch out the rooster she was with and out in another one to see if it was him. She is still laying infertile eggs as of now but he has started chasing her around, biting her neck and other breeding behaviors.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Since you've been trying to hatch her eggs and repeatedly having poor results I would probably look into getting eggs elsewhere from someone that checks their fertility and hatches their own chicks as well so you know they're already proven eggs. Then I would put half of the egg under your broody, and half in the incubator. This will do a few things; if they hatch perfectly fine in both the incubator and under her, then there could be a genetic issue causing her eggs to fail. If they hatch in the incubator and not under your broody, then she may be doing something to prevent a good hatch. You can also sneak the incubator babies underneath her at night to see if she will adopt them if that's your goal. Good luck!

 

[Bennythechick]

Since you've been trying to hatch her eggs and repeatedly having poor results I would probably look into getting eggs elsewhere from someone that checks their fertility and hatches their own chicks as well so you know they're already proven eggs. Then I would put half of the egg under your broody, and half in the incubator. This will do a few things; if they hatch perfectly fine in both the incubator and under her, then there could be a genetic issue causing her eggs to fail. If they hatch in the incubator and not under your broody, then she may be doing something to prevent a good hatch. You can also sneak the incubator babies underneath her at night to see if she will adopt them if that's your goal. Good luck!

Thank you! I will definitely try this.