Ok... we're complete noobs... we have 5 hens & 2 went broody about a 1.5 months ago... after fighting with them for several weeks we decided to just go ahead and buy some fertilized eggs. Well.. 21 days later - we've got hatching signs for 3 of the 5 eggs. When we got home and started 'mommy' duties.. (feeding.. fresh water).. one of the hens was up and moving and we saw that the egg had cracked and a wing was poking out.. YEAH!!! (not that we actually did anything.. but it's still exciting!!) after the mommies got fed .. one of them rolled the hatching egg back under her.. my question (yes.. i'm getting to the point ... LOL) is.. is that ok?? her sitting on it while it's trying to hatch? or should we remove it and let it hatch itself now that it's started..
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