First time chicken raiser with first time mumma chicken - Help needed

[Jennyg77]

Hi, I have only recently come into the world of backyard chickens and am absolutely loving it! I could chicken watch for hours..... Anyway, one of my girl went broody on fake eggs so I got a half dozen fertilised eggs and put them under her. She has been on them since Friday afternoon except for a prolonged amount of time this morning (Sunday) where I found her on another girls egg and a fake egg resulting in the fertilised eggs going cold. I popped her back on the fertilised eggs and she's been there since (and also removed the fake eggs)... My question, will the eggs be viable now they have gone cold?

 

[sourland]

If they were viable to begin with, your eggs should still develop. Better off chilled than over heated. Good luck for a successful incubation.

 

[Jennyg77]

thanks! She's been sitting on the eggs since. I do hope we get at least a couple.

 

[Jennyg77]

7 days after being on the eggs I've decided to "candle" them. I have found one which definitely had a yoke floating around it. Confirmed with cracking it open. There is one which has a darker area which doesn't float around. I'm thinking that it is one of two things, viable or gone bad. I don't want the girl to be sitting on dud eggs for two more weeks, any suggestions of what I should do?

 

[Jennyg77]

One little surprise this morning!