My chantecler Auntie Laamie, (10 months old) was sneaking around laying eggs in my snowy garden. she started setting on them last week, so I moved her and her 9 infertile eggs to my husbands shed, enclosed, awaiting my order of hatching eggs. The eggs should be here tomorrow, but today, when I opened up her crate to feed her and get her out for a minute, her eggs were all buried in the straw, and she leapt out and ran away as fast as she could. I figured she'd just quit, and went online to price out incubators.. the eggs are still coming tomorrow!... then I went out, and she was searching the garden for her eggs... so I took her back into the shed, uncovered the eggs, and she settled back on... do i trust her with the new eggs? Should I give her less space? so she can't get off the eggs? Should I give her less bedding? how can I give these new eggs (and Auntie Laamie) the best chance of success?
