non-broody fowl keepers

[The Birb King]

Candle at 7 days/veins ... again at 14 days/dark mass but may see movement ... last at 18 days/dark mass and it's lockdown

Thats the thing one time I candled eggs on day 3 or 4 and could see inside. lighter eggs are also way easier to see than dark eggs.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Marans eggs are impossible to candle ... A dark closet with the phone flashlight works the best; pointy side down, fat side up (air cell)

 

[Larafamilychickens]

Mine are only a year old but I had a gen that spent the summer “going broody,” just to abandon the eggs. She would gather all the eggs, go broody for about 2 weeks and then just shift to the next nesting box over. she would shift faster if she saw me gather eggs. it’s like she was incensed over me taking her eggs.

I finally hatched a couple in the incubator and it turns out she is definitely not the Mom, which might be why she kept giving up.

 

[fluffycrow]

Mine are only a year old but I had a gen that spent the summer “going broody,” just to abandon the eggs. She would gather all the eggs, go broody for about 2 weeks and then just shift to the next nesting box over. she would shift faster if she saw me gather eggs. it’s like she was incensed over me taking her eggs.

I finally hatched a couple in the incubator and it turns out she is definitely not the Mom, which might be why she kept giving up.

I don't think most hens understand which eggs are theirs and which are not. The only exception is gamefowl, and more specifically aseel and aseel-types. But I might be wrong and it could be an all chicken breed thing. We'd have to check with someone who has had a broody before

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Athena's babies are most likely not hers biologically. Only one might be hers out of the four, and I suspect it's not because she was already acting broody when I was collecting the eggs for her.

 

[Isadora]

Longest 21 days ever!

Have you hatched geese? It's torture

 

[Larafamilychickens]

I don't think most hens understand which eggs are theirs and which are not. The only exception is gamefowl, and more specifically aseel and aseel-types. But I might be wrong and it could be an all chicken breed thing. We'd have to check with someone who has had a broody before

I would agree as I have heard many broody hens hatching different breeds and species. You just have to laugh at the situation. I had so much hope every time, only for her to abandon nest every time! But I have hope that maybe she will get it next year! I am in the cycle of hope, nope, repeat!

Bright side though, I was never short eggs, until the chickens molted.

 

[The Birb King]

Marans eggs are impossible to candle ... A dark closet with the phone flashlight works the best; pointy side down, fat side up (air cell)

Yup. I literally cant see inside the super dark ones until they are about to hatch

 

[fluffycrow]

Have you hatched geese? It's torture

Yeah but you get sassy cotton balls afterwards

 

[Isadora]

Yeah but you get sassy cotton balls afterwards

They're the puppies of the poultry world.