first time chicken farmer with questions.....
We started with chickens about 3 months ago and I have about 40 in our flock, some as old as 3yrs and some that were hatched in April...
here are my questions:
my wyandotte went broody on Tuesday;
originally she only had one RR egg under her, but today when I put feed out she hopped down and I noticed she had two new eggs under her, one is a wyandotte and the other is one that one of my RR's lays once a week, its a double yolk, massive egg (its longer than my hand is wide)
#1.
should I leave her in the henhouse with the rest of the chickens? or should I take her somewhere else?
#2.
will the large egg hatch? I am not even sure the two RR eggs are fertile, but we have three roos, one bantam who sticks with his girls, one wyandotte who sticks with his girl and a pheonix who just kinda watches the flock and makes alot of noise...
#3.
how soon can I check to see if the eggs arent bad? is there a thread on here somewhere about how to candle eggs and what to look for?
#4. is it okay that one egg showed up on Tuesday and the other two arrived sometime today? (Friday)
She seems very serious about this whole broody thing and got quite mad at me when I went over to her nesting box (it had a fake egg in there too and I wanted to remove it..she got all pissy at me) lol
I have no idea what I am doing with this whole broody chicken thing, I was kinda hoping there would be some bantam eggs under her because I love my little mini-me chickeroos....is it too late so sneak a few of those under her?
Thanks!!!
ps...I started reading through this whole thread and there are almost 300 pages, I would have kept on reading but that would take me a few days so I just decided to post my questions. Thanks guys!!
~J