Help! Broody pecked hole in egg under her

[ackie]

I think 19 eggs is a little much, but I've had broodies successfully hatch 15, 16 eggs which I would have thought was too many as well (I don't know how many eggs they sat though)

 

[JacinLarkwell]

It's normal to lose chicks in a big hatch in my opinion. These are often eggs that would have had to been assisted in an incubator anyways and usually have something wrong anyeays

 

[Bluebellhoney]

I think 19 eggs is a little much, but I've had broodies successfully hatch 15, 16 eggs which I would have thought was too many as well (I don't know how many eggs they sat though)

Wow that’s a lot! 4 of the 19 stopped developing a while back, and I’m kicking myself because I stopped candling them about a week before hatch- there were so many and she got so cross with me! Maybe if I had removed those this wouldn’t be happening. The remaining 7 I put under another broody- one is hatching and one crushed this morning . The remaining ones all seem viable still but maybe they would be delayed if she hasn’t been covering them all properly?

 

[ackie]

Wow that’s a lot! 4 of the 19 stopped developing a while back, and I’m kicking myself because I stopped candling them about a week before hatch- there were so many and she got so cross with me! Maybe if I had removed those this wouldn’t be happening. The remaining 7 I put under another broody- one is hatching and one crushed this morning . The remaining ones all seem viable still but maybe they would be delayed if she hasn’t been covering them all properly?

I tend to get larger hatches when I leave the girls alone BUT it may just be the hens that nest where I can find them arent as good of broodies as the ones that hide their nests more effectively. my game hens are GREAT broodies, so honestly it may be a good bit genetics.

 

[Bluebellhoney]

I tend to get larger hatches when I leave the girls alone BUT it may just be the hens that nest where I can find them arent as good of broodies as the ones that hide their nests more effectively. my game hens are GREAT broodies, so honestly it may be a good bit genetics.

Okay reading this, I am definitely a helicopter chicken parent/expectant nanna...

 

[ackie]

Okay reading this, I am definitely a helicopter chicken parent/expectant nanna...

I mean, it's much easier to leave a nest alone if you dont know where it is.

 

[Bluebellhoney]

I mean, it's much easier to leave a nest alone if you dont know where it is.