Minni Egg Hatch

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Day 18
Day 6

I found a nest of duck eggs once and checked on it every day since I found it. One day I found the nest all broken except one egg, I took it to a relatives house and she put it in her incubator, it hatched.
But that was in the summer, this is winter.

 

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I candled the eggs and I think I saw an embryo move! also there seems to be a ring forming around it?

 

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I have been looking up Cochin brahma crosses and it seems like the boys have pea combs and the girls have single combs?

 

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Day 19
Day 7
All the embryos are bigger and moving around! Dot did not go broody. One of our other hens started but I think I stopped her before it got serious.

 

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Day 20
Day 8
The other hen (spice) is broody, though she is not as determined as marshmallow.

 

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Day 21!
Day 9

 

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It hasn't hatched, but I will leave it under her until day 23

 

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Day 22
Day 10

It still hasn't hatched

 

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No chick. I think one of the four eggs might have died, it has an awful blotchy shell though so I can't see it very well.

 

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Day 23
Day 11
I am going to crack the tiny egg open tonight