The Eggs Got Cold...

[SlyDog]

So my bantam is sitting on some fertile eggs I got for her, and my Australorp always lays on top of her. Last night the nesting box was overturned with one casualty, but the remaining eggs were cold when I found them this morning. I've put it all back and the bantam is happily sitting again, however is this a waste of time seeing as they all got stone cold over night? (it's winter in Oz). Is there any chance they've survived?

 

[ChickNanny13]

I'd give the eggs/Hen a chance....How many days into setting is the hen?

 

[SlyDog]

7 days she's had them.... I will leave her to it and hope she gets something for her efforts.

 

[Petra Pancake]

I'd also say, give them a chance. I had a broody who ended up in the wrong nesting box' letting her own eggs go cold for more than half a day. She still hatched 50% of them. And somewhere on BYC, don't have the time to look for the link now, there was this thread where someone let eggs go cold for a day and a half or something, and most of them still hatched... eggs are pretty tough.