Help ASAP - broody chicken killed first hatchling, now what to do with the other eggs??

metcarl

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Jan 31, 2018
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My broody has been sitting on eggs which started to hatch today. Two of the three have pipped and one of those hatched. When I went out to check on her again, she had killed the first chick and had noticeably pecked the eggs that were starting to hatch including the one that had not pipped yet. So now I have two remaining eggs, one pipped and one with a hole in it not by the air cell but not through the membrane. I took them away from her. What do I do with them? I don’t have an incubator. I do have a heat lamp but worry about the humidity without the incubator. Help!!!
 
Get a heat lamp and set up a brooder ASAP. You can't risk putting them back under the hen at this point. Once you get the brooder set up with the lamp put the eggs under it and spray or mist the eggs with water so the membranes don't dry out.
 

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