Chick developing in freshly laid egg

[ChickenCanoe]

Broody hens steal eggs.

 

[Triple Willow]

Broody hens steal eggs.

This would have been a hen with chicks stealing eggs from a hen that was sitting on some then just leaving them laying out. I don't know...?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That scenario doesn't sound right.

 

[Triple Willow]

That scenario doesn't sound right.

I know! All I do know is that I don't know. LOL

 

[BCMaraniac]

**Update on the eggs I thought/think my broody might have laid. This morning I found eggs missing from a nest across the pen from where those eggs were found. I don't know how but there is a possibility that the hens moved those eggs. The eggs missing are similar enough to the eggs that the hen lays that I could have been wrong. Personally, it is easier for me to believe that the hens moved the eggs than to believe that the hen laid those eggs. I HOPE the eggs were moved. Then I won't have to worry about my hen going to keel over dead on me. Either way, there are strange things going on in that chicken coop! LOL

You mentioned that the eggs in question were jumbo eggs......were the ones under the other broodies jumbo? Do you know how many eggs you put under each broody? I always put 10 or 11 under each one.

 

[Triple Willow]

You mentioned that the eggs in question were jumbo eggs......were the ones under the other broodies jumbo?  Do you know how many eggs you put under each broody?  I always put 10 or 11 under each one.

Yes the ones under the broody were also jumbo. That's another thing that makes me think they moved them. I put 12 under that broody. Now there's 8 but I guess she could have ate a bad one. I'm leaning toward they moved them. There was one egg missing from each of the other two broodys' nests when all was said and done.

 

[scottcaddy]

**Update on the eggs I thought/think my broody might have laid. This morning I found eggs missing from a nest across the pen from where those eggs were found. I don't know how but there is a possibility that the hens moved those eggs. The eggs missing are similar enough to the eggs that the hen lays that I could have been wrong. Personally, it is easier for me to believe that the hens moved the eggs than to believe that the hen laid those eggs. I HOPE the eggs were moved. Then I won't have to worry about my hen going to keel over dead on me. Either way, there are strange things going on in that chicken coop! LOL

Have you thought about a game cam/webcam setup?

Scott

 

[Triple Willow]

Have you thought about a game cam/webcam setup?

Scott

That would have been great.