Our hen stopped sitting on the eggs after first chick came out this morning, what should I do?

[Birdie mom]

 

[Birdie mom]

also @piXelsbite WELCOME TO THE BYC!!!

 

[piXelsbite]

also @piXelsbite WELCOME TO THE BYC!!!

Thank you! A few years ago when we got our first broody hen I'm pretty sure I happened to come on this forum (as it seems pretty familiar to me now) for basic information about... everything, so maybe it was time I actually made an account

 

[HomeGardenGirl]

There's 7 of them that are alive, but I'm worried they won't get out without the hen warming them up. I put them in the sun (with a towel on top) for heat but it's gonna set in about an hour and they still haven't hatched. They're alive and moving though. We don't have heating pads or lamps so I have no idea what to do for heat during the night

Put them in a HOT steamy bathroom if you don't have anything else!

 

[piXelsbite]

Hello!

Update: During the night there has been no progress whatsoever. I've pipped all the eggs yesterday myself because I was worried they'd get out of air, but they didn't proceed to crack the egg further. However, a few hours later 4 of them came out! The hen is still sitting on the eggs and this time she doesn't seem willing to leave them again
So there's 3 more to go and hen is taking care of them all.

I'm not sure what her deal was. She seems to have hurt her leg yesterday (no idea where/what happened) and bled a little over the bedding. Which I've changed before taking her in again for the night. Maybe that bothered her and she didn't realize it was her own blood so she was trying to get her first chick away from the ''danger''? I don't know. But I'm happy all seems resolved now.

I've tried to babysit the first chick for a few hours yesterday, thinking that taking it away might convince her to sit on her eggs further (nope, that didn't accomplish anything) and now when I take it in my hand he's all relaxed and snuggly, which never happened with any of the chicks we've had! So we might get a friendly chicken out of this whole experience, which would be a pretty cute upside.

So thank you to everyone that tried to help yesterday, I really appreciated it!