Eggs on day 22, starting to stink

[Maddison]

from what you've described from candling its normal for eggs to be completely dark during the last days in my experience. also, I've noticed when hatching under a hen the eggs will have a certain stronge stuck smell under the hen and on the eggs, I believe this is natural as its a result of a hens form of humidity for her eggs, only stinkier... so its either that or the eggs are bad. the most I'd leave eggs incubating for is 25 days, beyond that and they are bad. is she consistently on and off throughout this whole broody period, or was she staying on the nest up until now?

 

[thinkyesi]

Yes, she has been very loyal to sitting on them.
The eggs air cell on one egg is maybe an inch big and its slanted. They other two eggs have a bit of a smaller cell about a little bigger than half and inch.
And i dont have an incubator.

 

[thinkyesi]

Okay, i didnt know that, this is my first time letting a hen sit on her eggs.
She has been very loyal to staying on her eggs.

 

[WVduckchick]

It's your hen and your eggs, but i would give her another day before tossing them. And not having an incubator, I wouldn't recommend breaking into them yet.
If she rolled other bad eggs out, I would trust that she would know if the remaining ones are bad too. Just my opinion.

 

[thinkyesi]

I may just give them one more day then.
I feel bad cause she was so loyal to those eggs.
Now lets say all the eggs were bad, and i were to toss them out, could i atleast get some baby chicks and put them under her and see if she will adopt them? I feel so bad cause she really wants to be a momma.

 

[Smuvers Farm]

I may just give them one more day then.
I feel bad cause she was so loyal to those eggs.
Now lets say all the eggs were bad, and i were to toss them out, could i atleast get some baby chicks and put them under her and see if she will adopt them? I feel so bad cause she really wants to be a momma.

Absolutely! You'd just sneak them under her during the night.

 

[WVduckchick]

I may just give them one more day then.
I feel bad cause she was so loyal to those eggs.
Now lets say all the eggs were bad, and i were to toss them out, could i atleast get some baby chicks and put them under her and see if she will adopt them? I feel so bad cause she really wants to be a momma.

If you can find day-old chicks, you can try to slip them under her without her seeing them, she may accept them. Doing it in the dark usually works best.

 

[thinkyesi]

Okay, i will try that if these eggs never hatch

 

[thinkyesi]

Okay, thanks for the tip. There is a feed store near me that always has baby chicks.

 

[thinkyesi]

So i decided to throw 2 eggs out of 3 out. I cracked open one egg, and the baby was formed but it just never made it out. It was dead in the egg. The other egg i kept waiting and waiting to see any movement, but i didnt see any so i tossed it out and it had a baby in it too, but i dont think it was alive, when i opened the egg, it wasnt moving at all.
The third egg i havent broken yet, my heart hurts too much from the other two. Im literally crying my eyes out. I dont know what to do with this last egg. Its day 23, and i try to look for movement but i see nothing move when candling. I can see some viens near the air sac but i cant see anything else. I try to tap on the egg to encourage movement, but nothing. What should i do?!