If your humid should be ok.In her last week of brooding, Dusty decided she will only eat eggs and cheese. Not as gourmet as Fret, but I haven't offered her prawns either.
Thank you for the lifting the broody advice.
An hour ago, 6:20 am here, I very carefully went to lift Dusty off her nest to go poop and stretch. Being very wary that today is day 21, though I didn't actually put the eggs under her until the late afternoon on her first day.
Lo and behold, there was a hole in one of the eggs with a little tooth sticking out and steadily chiseling away. I *very gently* put Dusty right back, being careful her feet were out of the way of the little one trying to emerge.
Geez, I really hope I didn't mess things up ...
mine USUALLY sit tight in lock down the last 3 days, I assume to up the humidity...like an incubator. I have found a hen off eating and a egg hatching. I usually move the egg to another broody with eggs hatching or eggs that didn't hatch... I usually have a bunch go broody at the same time.
I don't take hens off the nest. I figure they have been hatching eggs for thousands of years and instincts should tell them to get off and eat.
Not to say instincts are always spot on. I have 3 turkey hens sitting on eggs since may that I will be destroying the nest soon so they can get in shape for winter. I thought maybe added eggs would hatch but when they do they ignore the poults and chicks and let them wander off. These particular hens have done this for 4 years. I had one that would kill hers as they hatched. I sold her as a baby killer..... cheap
Congrats to Henry!! 
