hey all! i havent been here since last year! I have a broody on eggs, shes been on them for a while now. her first set got smashed (goats can figure a way into anything.. cant they!?) When I found them, she had already moved to another nest...so I cleaned up the mess and put her back in and reinforced the openings. This morning I went to check on her and there is a PIP! which is wonderful, but they are suppose to be due for another week. my guess is she took an unbroken egg with her to the new nest....if this one hatches, she wont continue to set will she? i will be firing up the bator, for a batch of eggs coming any day now.. but i am not sure about putting eggs that are about to hatch in with brand new ones...
i feel bad. i candled a couple of them earlier and they were doing wonderful!
You're right, she'll get off the nest when the first chick hatches, so you'll want to put the other ones in the incubator. I'm worrying myself that if the guinea eggs under my BO hatch at day 26 instead of 28 she'll abandon the chicken eggs that aren't due to hatch till day 28 so they might find their way into my incubator when we start getting close, just in case.