TinyRaptorDodos
Crowing
First time with a broody hen. Should I candle her eggs? Or leave them? She doesn’t mind me touching her or her eggs but I’m curious of if the eggs I got for her (my rooster might be sterile? I’ll attach a photo of the embryo I saw closest to a bullseye. But I’m getting a second rooster) she accepted those eggs after I took the infertile eggs that she kept trying to move and would leave two or three behind, I think they were too dirty and she didn’t like that. Will handling the eggs too much risk them dying or making Yeti dislike them? She hasn’t shifted her nest area or pushed any eggs out from under her yet thankfully. She only has five because she’s a silkie so quite small, still quite young. Oh and she’s inside because she took the favorite nesting box and wouldn’t move to the one they never used so the other hens kept trying to lay eggs on top of her… it was chaotic so I brought her in and she’s much more content.