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I have a broody OE sitting on 5 or 6 eggs that has been under her for about 22-24 days now and one of them is definitely alive. Each time I tap my fingernail on the egg I hold it up to my ear and hear pecking noises. The egg shell is pretty thin, so I would think that it would hatch pretty easy. The chicken that it’s from is from my speckled Sussex or my English Orpington. Should I help it? All of the times I’ve helped chicks out of the egg, they turned out the healthiest out of all of the chickens that I hatched from that batch. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
 
It is up to you. I just have a couple thoughts.
About 85% of the time I've helped chicks, they didn't survive. I only help if I think they failed because of my poor incubation.
I have never helped a broody hens' eggs. They make it or they don't. If a broody can't hatch them naturally, they aren't meant to hatch. There are lots of reasons an embryo won't make it. Breeder nutrition being only one of them.
That is very late. Is there any way the eggs were kept cool during incubation?
 
ChickenCanoe said:
It is up to you. I just have a couple thoughts.
About 85% of the time I've helped chicks, they didn't survive. I only help if I think they failed because of my poor incubation.
I have never helped a broody hens' eggs. They make it or they don't. If a broody can't hatch them naturally, they aren't meant to hatch. There are lots of reasons an embryo won't make it. Breeder nutrition being only one of them.
That is very late. Is there any way the eggs were kept cool during incubation?
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No, I don’t think. She gets up for about 10-15 minutes each day to eat and drink.
 
What made me think of that is that some of my nest boxes have hardware cloth bottoms and they have plastic nest pads that can allow cool air to make contact with the eggs.
22 days is late. 24 days is extremely late.
 
I would candle it to see the air pocket then help it hatch, just because it can't pop on it's own doesn't mean it had to die!
 

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