Momma hen acts like she is having a sleep over.

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Every egg I bring her she tucks it under her belly as if to say "come'on get in there."
Her name is Daphne. she has 5 big eggs and 3 bantam egg under her right now. from diff sources.

 

[sourland]

Hopefully you have given her all of the eggs on the same day. Staggered hatches can cause several problems.

 

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she hatched out these last 2 from the eggs above. 9/1/14

The small one below is my chicken egg will be EE bantam/Isbar both parents are "blue" if it is fertile, and the large is a double yolker from the above chicks farm. They do have mixed chickens but I am hoping for a Naked neck. Double yolkers usually don't make it, but this one looks to have enough room for 2 chicks. Mom hen is sitting on these due 22nd.

also..six that look like these...
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and one like this.

 

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these are all the same day. I hatched out staggered all summer long though. I have the time to keep track. and it is not like there is a lock down.

 

[sourland]

Staggered hatches in an incubator and those under a hen are two far different things.

 

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