please help!! Completely stressed

[Sarasarasara222]

so recently I had to take 6eggs from 9 so I don’t have too many chicks (a chicken is incubating) and then I don’t knkw if they will hatch at the same time and what if they hatch too late and then they will be abandoned so I am really stressing out on this please help!

 

[Chicken Boy 101]

They'll be fine.

 

[Maddison]

not too sure what your saying here, but if I understand correctly you took out some eggs from under a incubating hen and your worried the remainders will now hatch late? from my experience reguardless of how many eggs or how old they are a hen will sit until all eggs are hatched and she will not abandon any chicks, she may abandon eggs if she feels they have gone bad as mine did, and my hen was right.

 

[Sarasarasara222]

Thanks! I guess it will be fine.

 

[Latestarter]

Really, you have counted your eggs before they hatched... How do you know what status the eggs left are in? or what gender they will be if they hatch? What of the eggs you removed? You should have left all of the eggs with the hen and waited to see what you got AFTER they hatched

Raising 9 chicks is no harder than raising 3, that, IF all 9 eggs hatched... Never a guarantee... The eggs you left behind may be duds, or may all be roosters... you won't know till later.

I hope your brooding hen hatches what's left for you and that they are all that you've wanted.

 

[Sarasarasara222]

Thanks for all the advise! A strange update, there is another chicken wanting to be the broody hen for the eggs and I can’t keep her away when she’s sleeping in there! If they hatch with two hens. What do you think would happen?

 

[Folly's place]

I like to isolate my broody hens so conflicts don't happen; She brings her chicks into the flock after a week or so.
Mary

 

[Maddison]

My hens got along fine hatching together, they raised the chick together. though if they are both on the same nest your chances of a hatch are lower, my two hens cracked an egg completely open on one side with half a shell remaining leaving nothing but the membrane, I didn't know what to do as it was shrinkwrapped. it was on day 18-ish I tried assisting it but it ended up dying since it hadn't yet absorbed the yolk, for a best hatch remove the other broody and set her up in a nest where she can't get to the other hen.

 

[Sarasarasara222]

Thank you! It’s so sweet that they raised it together .