Galaxy_rules
🍉☀️Galaxy☀️🍉
It’s day 23 for my eggs under Blackberry ( broodie ). Yesterday morning I went to let my chickens out, everyone ( except Blackberry ) came out as usual. I scoped up three cups of pellets for 11 chickens outside, then I scooped a small bit of stage two chick food out for Blackberry ( I usually feed her laying pellets, she’s two years old, but I like giving her a treat when she’s broody ), and poured a small mountain of food right in front of her sitting area. I do this every day. However, yesterday I saw something that surprised me. A chicken egg ( that had been sat on ) was to the side of her. Not being sat on. I picked up and inspected it. Almost all of the shell had been cracked off, but the inside ( casing? ) was still almost fully on. There was a chick inside. Fully developed. Its eyes were closed, and it was all tucked up, taking up the whole egg sack. It was one of my sweet blue Australorps. It had a some blood on it and a little on the egg. Blackberry went outside for the first time, so I put the egg underneath her, not knowing if it was dead or alive. I came back in the evening ( 8:30 pm ), the egg was to the side yet again. It looked like it had tried to hatch more, but failed, you could almost see it’s whole body now. I knew now that it was dead. I went back home, and my mom did the chickens. She drove back, saying she thought she heard a chick under Blackberry. She didn’t think it was cockerels/pullets, as they make louder, “ older “ sounding peeps. She described the peeps she heard as small, little peeps. I went over to Blackberry, and also heard a few small peeps. I scoped her up, and only saw eggs, was one of them piping?
