I had this happen. I chip a little hole in the egg. If I can see it moving I will leave it alone for a while. If it does not progress I will continue to chip away the shell slowly. I have had a couple chicks that needed a little assistance. But be prepared the ones that need help sometimes have issues. One of mine has breathing issues and is small. She needed extra attention in the beginning but now is 11 weeks and hanging with the crew.
If it's possible, I'd add another box or two for the other hens to lay and encourage with a golf ball in there. Also, I know how stubborn laying hens can be and they may still lay in your broody hens' box. I would mark your hatching eggs with a marker, and remove the other eggs daily. Good luck!!Hi everyone, this is basically the first time I have ever posted on this thread. I have recently started to candle my silkies eggs again when I noticed at least one of my silkies staying on the nest and that was about 2 weeks ago. I now have to silkys laying on two separate ness so I've decided to split the eggs between the two chickens. There are about eight or nine eggs that are positively fertile, I can view by candling the veins and the embryo. A couple days ago, I was candling those same eggs and I saw movement, wanted to get it on video but accidentally dropped the egg. Remorsefully, I inspected the opened egg and saw, a heart beating, large eyes movement of limbs and intricate vein system. Although I was very upset that the egg dropped and broke, one of my most viable eggs, I was very interested in seeing what was inside. I do have a couple pictures of eggs I can. Last week I will post the picture. Although I do have a problem with the nesting due to about 7 chickens using two nests and those nest are occupied by my two brooders. So what I have is chickens laying eggs in the same nest as my brooders.
Here are the pics,
These eggs were candled last week and embryos are about a week old.
Hopefully the images are visible.
