It's been 3 weeks now since my pekin hen Delilah laid her first egg in her nest. She laid one, then it was almost a week before she laid there again. She's laid there everyday since.
One day this past week she removed one egg from the nest.
Last count I got this past Friday she had 11 eggs in the nest.
I can't get a count today as she's buried them with leaves so I know she's still going back to the nest every morning to lay or tend them.
She went broody last year and set for the full 35 days. We had 2 full formed ducklings out of 10 eggs but for whatever reason they did not survive hatch.
It has been 3 weeks since the first egg was laid and she's yet to go to nest full time.
How long do I wait before I need to pull those eggs out and discard them?
Is it unusually for them to lay and then not set for awhile?
At what point do I assume she's hoarding eggs but not going to set?
One day this past week she removed one egg from the nest.
Last count I got this past Friday she had 11 eggs in the nest.
I can't get a count today as she's buried them with leaves so I know she's still going back to the nest every morning to lay or tend them.
She went broody last year and set for the full 35 days. We had 2 full formed ducklings out of 10 eggs but for whatever reason they did not survive hatch.
It has been 3 weeks since the first egg was laid and she's yet to go to nest full time.
How long do I wait before I need to pull those eggs out and discard them?
Is it unusually for them to lay and then not set for awhile?
At what point do I assume she's hoarding eggs but not going to set?
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