Chicken death

[Desirai]

I am surrounded by chicken death... one of my chickens was killed a couple days ago. since then.. every single egg I have opened up has had a baby chick in it.

It's making me queasy and sick and depressed.

 

[sourland]

Are you opening eggs that she was setting on? The only way that eggs can contain a chick is if they have been incubated.

 

[Desirai]

Well I went out of town for 4 days, I got back yesterday and collected the eggs. I opened up 5 today and they all had a chick in them. Tiny little chick, smaller than a dime. but definitely a chicken

 

[b.hromada]

Are you opening eggs that she was setting on? The only way that eggs can contain a chick is if they have been incubated.

Exactly.

 

[hemet dennis]

4 days doesn't make a baby chick.

 

[Desirai]

There was also lots of blood in the eggs.... if it wasn't a chick.. and there was blood.. then what?

 

[Peaches Lee]

Do you have a rooster? If you do not have a rooster, then absolutely no chicks! Sometimes hens will pass blood in their eggs from a blood vessel that's ruptured.

 

[Desirai]

Yes I do have a rooster. His name is Lindo!

 

[hemet dennis]

To have a chick (even that small) it has to be older then 4 days and a hen has to be sitting on them most of the time.

 

[Desirai]

so it's possible thos eggs were there before I went out of town and I just didn't notice them?

I do have 3 broody hens but only one of them is actually sitting on eggs, the other 2 are just sitting on empty nests