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MY HEN IS GOING ALL OVER THE PLease HELP! my hen is very broody but it keeps on eating her eggs when im gone its been laying on the eggs for over 20days and some she just layed that have been sat on for a few days now. but once she cracked open an egg and it had a baby inside already developing and it still had the embryo with it but it had full structure already with hair or fur.then today she cracked open another and im pretty sure it was about to hatch too. im afraid that she'll eat the rest too, she now has about 9 left out of like 15. so and answers on why she is doing this and how i can prevent it.
its pretty sad to see baby chicks that are not fully ready to be born yet so any advice![]()
well she is the only hen with the rooster right now and im planning to get the incubator fired up and use itYou say she's doing it when you're gone, so are you sure she's the one that's breaking them and if so, how do you know? A broody hen gets up once or twice a day to eat, stretch out, take a poo, etc. Are you certain there isn't another hen doing the breaking? Since it's happening when you're gone I wouldn't be so sure it's her. How much bedding do you have under her for the eggs to rest on? Quite a bit? Is there a disturbance in the coop? (Like a rowdy roo or a bossy hen) that is disturbing her and causing her to break them accidentally? A hen will eat a broken egg whether she's the one that broke it or not.
Regardless of why this keeps happening, I would move the eggs the heck out of there and put them in an incubator to hatch out safely. Is this her first clutch?