5 of my chicks are three days old and 2 are two days old. One egg is still not hatching. I candled it today and saw the baby structure. No movement or sound. The nest smells terrible because of baby poop and the broody tried to get out with the chicks. I kinda forcefully locked it in the nest. What should I do now to save the unhatched chick?
Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do.
if the hen leaves the nest it means she’s done with it. I had a duck hatch some eggs but one didn’t and she left the nest when I candled it, it was about a week behind where it should’ve been, so we removed it since she’d left it for over two days.