Hen hatched 2 eggs and now just left the other eggs

[birdlover24]

My Hen hatched 2 of her eggs and now she is just tending her young and ignoring the remaining eggs. I was wondering if I should bring them in and candle them and put them in the incubator??? She is just sitting away from them and not going back on them..

 

[breanna6627]

If you have an incubator it would be your best bet if you want more to hatch. The problem with that is, once they hatch I don't know if it is possible to put them back with the mom

 

[birdlover24]

Alright, I think i will do that then. Thanks for the quick reply.

 

[breanna6627]

I hatched 20 out of 30 eggs in my incubator sometime in June. They are my first chickens. I'm going to try to get my hens to hatch their own, and I'm going to hatch half of our Guineas clutch a year. (Have had them longer)

 

[birdlover24]

Did you incubate the Guinea eggs? I have tried 2 times and never had any hatch! I don't know what i am doing wrong!

 

[breanna6627]

I incubated 20 (I think) and 7 hatched. You have to check every chance you get to make sure humidity is right. They need a high humidity, for the few days before they hatched I was gone so I had my Uncle (he used to have a game farm) take care of the eggs/ chicks. Since such a low hatch rate we got $63 to spend at Strombergs Poultry online. It was a bad laying year. I recommend Strombergs, that's were I get all my stuff. And the 30 chicken eggs. They had a GREAT hatch rate.

That's what my guineas nest looked like. Unfortunately something ate them

MAKE SURE THE POINTED SIDE IS DOWN OTHERWISE THEY DONT HATCH