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The rest of the eggs would appear infertile to me of they looked like that. I'd throw them away and give her the chick back. Just watch and make sure she accepts it back. She'll leave the nest with the chick within a day or so of the eggs being gone. The only reason she had stuck around is because you took the one chick away from her.I need some advice please. Stormey's clutch of eggs is at Day 23 today by my calculations. One egg hatched Friday, right on time, but nothing else has pipped or hatched as of this morning. I candled the eggs around Day 15'ish. I didn't take pictures but here are some similar images I pulled from the web. 1 egg looked like this. I'm assuming this is the one that hatched Friday.The other 11 eggs looked more like this but each had a visible air pocket:
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Are the rest of eggs bad? Should I go ahead and pull them from Stormey or wait another day? How will she react if I take her eggs away? Then, there's the question of the single chick, Uno. I pulled her and placed her in a brooder until there was another hatch - this being the first time for me and for Stormey. Can I place her back under Stormey now? Should I wait till tonight and exchange Uno for the remaining eggs (assuming nothing else hatches)? Sorry for all the questions but I don't want to make any mistakes.