Hi everyone

[Owenjnior]

Thank you so muvh

 

[sourland]

Hello, Owen, and welcome to BYC. Hopefully one of your hens will go broody - not all do.

 

[Owenjnior]

Hello Owen, and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Just because a hen starts to lay eggs does not mean she is going to set them and hatch chicks. She has to go broody first and that is hormonally driven. It is completely dependent on the bird. With only two hens, neither of them may go broody. You may have to invest in an incubator if you want to hatch chicks from your flock.
I strongly advise that you collect and discard the eggs that have been laid and left out for these non-broody girls. They are not good. What you want to do is to collect the fresh eggs everyday but leave behind some fake eggs clustered in one nest. If you find a hen on that nest of fake eggs day and night and she acts very protective of them then she's likely gone broody. Then you can give her a set of hatching eggs that you can collect over the course of a few days.

Thank you so much, I think mine could be one of those non broody girls I should think.

I bought an incubator few days ago not sure if the eggs are still good to incubated

 

[Owenjnior]

Hello Owen, and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Just because a hen starts to lay eggs does not mean she is going to set them and hatch chicks. She has to go broody first and that is hormonally driven. It is completely dependent on the bird. With only two hens, neither of them may go broody. You may have to invest in an incubator if you want to hatch chicks from your flock.
I strongly advise that you collect and discard the eggs that have been laid and left out for these non-broody girls. They are not good. What you want to do is to collect the fresh eggs everyday but leave behind some fake eggs clustered in one nest. If you find a hen on that nest of fake eggs day and night and she acts very protective of them then she's likely gone broody. Then you can give her a set of hatching eggs that you can collect over the course of a few days

 

[Owenjnior]

Thank you so much for the information, luckily I bought an incubator this week, not sure if the eggs are still healthy to be incubated since the girls were sometimes sitting on them

 

[muddy75]

 

[Emu-mama]

Thank you so much for the information, luckily I bought an incubator this week, not sure if the eggs are still healthy to be incubated since the girls were sometimes sitting on them

Do you know how long they've been sat on, and when they were laid?

 

[DobieLover]

Thank you so much for the information, luckily I bought an incubator this week, not sure if the eggs are still healthy to be incubated since the girls were sometimes sitting on them

I suggested that you discard them. They are not good anymore. Just start collecting fresh eggs, do not wash them and keep them on the counter in an egg carton, pointy side down. When you have enough, set them all at the same time in the incubator.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens. This is a great place to explore and hang out.

 

[Owenjnior]

Do you know how long they've been sat on, and when they were laid?

They have not been sat on for more than two days, they sometimes spend a night and hhe following day on for a week. The eggs were laid and is 3 weeks now. One hens still laying for sure I saw her today in the nest.