Hatching

[Phalennichole]

Our white silkie has been sitting on her eggs and this is her first fertilized ones. I found the first one half way hatched and dead. Then today I found the same thing. Should I bring her inside with them? There is three left under her. Maybe when she gets up the others smash them? Or Is she smothering them. I’m not sure what’s going on? It’s sad .

 

[MGG]

Our white silkie has been sitting on her eggs and this is her first fertilized ones. I found the first one half way hatched and dead. Then today I found the same thing. Should I bring her inside with them? There is three left under her. Maybe when she gets up the others smash them? Or Is she smothering them. I’m not sure what’s going on? It’s sad .

She is probably killing the chicks. You will have to take them and artificially raise them. I had a hen that hatched her first eggs, and killed every chick she saw. She didn't kill the ones under her because she couldn't see them yet, but when she got up and saw them she tried to kill those too. I had to take them and raise them to around 10 weeks before I could integrate them back in with the flock.
Some hens are just not good mothers unfortunately.