Day 23 still no sign of chicks

[Creagh Lyons]

Hello, after the eggs my hen buried didn't hatch, I decied to try again. I gave my broody three eggs to hatch. All was going well. I tried candling the eggs but could not see anything as they had a thick dark shell. So I just left them. Day 21 I was waiting patiently. Day 22 no sign not even a pipe so I looked at the eggs, but to my horror there were only two eggs. I am on Day 23 and still no sign. Is there a possibility that they died, if so how? And when should you discard of the eggs?

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Hello, after the eggs my hen buried didn't hatch, I decied to try again. I gave my broody three eggs to hatch. All was going well. I tried candling the eggs but could not see anything as they had a thick dark shell. So I just left them. Day 21 I was waiting patiently. Day 22 no sign not even a pipe so I looked at the eggs, but to my horror there were only two eggs. I am on Day 23 and still no sign. Is there a possibility that they died, if so how? And when should you discard of the eggs?

Can you hear an peeps?

 

[Creagh Lyons]

Unfortunately this morning there was only one egg left in the nest. It is day twenty four and when I went to remove the egg there was a chick which had fully hatched but was dead, so out of 15 eggs only 1 hatched but non survived.

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Unfortunately this morning there was only one egg left in the nest. It is day twenty four and when I went to remove the egg there was a chick which had fully hatched but was dead, so out of 15 eggs only 1 hatched but non survived.

I’m so sorry!

 

[Creagh Lyons]

I’m so sorry!

It happens some times. I'm going to keep trying to hatch eggs naturally while I wait for my incubator to come

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

It happens some times. I'm going to keep trying to hatch eggs naturally while I wait for my incubator to come

I Prefer to naturally hatch then doing incubation, but I do always have my incubator running just in case my broody gets off, something takes the egg, etc. I have eggs in my incubator because something was stealing my eggs, and my broody ducks stopped sitting because their nests were destroyed! So I do like to keep a incubator on hand!!

 

[Creagh Lyons]

I Prefer to naturally hatch then doing incubation, but I do always have my incubator running just in case my broody gets off, something takes the egg, etc. I have eggs in my incubator because something was stealing my eggs, and my broody ducks stopped sitting because their nests were destroyed! So I do like to keep a incubator on hand!!

Thanks for the advice

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Thanks for the advice

Your welcome!