Hatching

[Redstone]

by my count, I am expecting some hatchlings and the 7th. They are in the coop being sat on. All the info on hatching eggs that I can find is on using a incubator. Since mine are natural, is there anything that I should do or just let nature do it's thing?

I'm also a bit worried because the Mom still lets others lay eggs in her nest, of course I pull out daily. Will these birds hurt the babies or will mama shoo them away?

 

[fordguy32]

I put some eggs in mu LG incubator i manually turned them everyday 3 times a day. After 21 days nothing happened at all so i thought id give it another day or two. So after the 23rd day still nothing happened so i decided to give up on it.

I decided to crack open the eggs to see if anything had happened at all and our of 26 eggs 21 had blood in the yolk and the other 5 had what looked to be a very very small chick (looks to be like a chick the started to develop then just stopped at like a week or week and a half). Can someone please help me? Tell me if i did something wrong or what i can do to better increase the hate rate because i will be incubating more eggs here in the next 3 days and i dont want these eggs to end up like these past ones did. please send feedback thank you!