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[marmstrong0109]

My hen hatched 5 babies last week but still has 6 eggs left to hatch do I take them away?
She still sits on them but I'm not sure how long she stays off of them. They may already be no good. I don't want to upset her.

 

[CAjerseychick]

I would remove them so that she go about the business of raising her chicks ( I did that for my hen that hatched out 4 chicks last Th, she did not seem upset at all)...I did
eggtopsies on the remaining 4-- 2 were full of green nasty fluid, 2 were really far behind in development for her to really be able to hatch them out/ raise her chicks at the same time....
I dont have an incubator, or I may have tried hatching out the 2 newer eggs (they must have been snuck in there before I got around to marking them)...

 

[marmstrong0109]

Thank you for your advice I will take them out I think one of my other chickens got in her brood box with her and layed more eggs and thats why the last 6 did not hatch at the same time.