- Oct 29, 2014
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Having a really crappy hatching experience...so frustrating! Bought 6 fertile eggs to put under a broody that wouldn't be swayed from being a mum... she stood on one egg almost straight away leaving 5... then another one cracked and we used wax to seal the crack and crossed our fingers as candling had revealed a growing chick, then she broke another one and we couldn't find any evidence of a chick in the remains (possibly infertile egg or eaten!??!) so we were down to 4...THEN, waxy baby started hatching but found the egg all crushed (again) with baby dead yesterday at Day 19...went out this morning to find the first proper hatching underway and then came home from a breakfast outing to find a baby chick!!! YAY!!! It was still connected to the egg but completely out of the shell (not sure if this was right?), lots of cheeping...went back an hour or so later to check and it was dead! Two eggs left, no idea if they're fertile, no idea if she's going to be any kinder to these ones and it is all so stressful! Nature sucks