When do you start counting...

[mulia24]

speckledhen's policy must be considered to you, she/he have a good trust here

as for me, i don't want to annoy / disturb my hen when she is setting beside, i don't like to cure and clean blood and hurt in my hand as negative effect of candling her eggs. .

 

[GaDawg]

Thanks everyone for the good advice! I think I will let mother nature take it's course. Keeping my fingers crossed....

 

[muddstopper]

Here is just my opinion. Yea I know, everybody has one, but, if you candle the eggs and dont see all or any developeing, what are you going to do with those undeveloped eggs. You certainly wont try eating them. If you leave them with the hen, they might hatch, you remove them, you know they wont. Leaving them with the hen isnt going to hurt anything and if they dont hatch, then you can get rid of them. Maybe if I had a hen setting on 20 eggs, I might consider candeling and removeing a few, but 9 eggs under one hen isnt to many for her to incubate.. I vote leave them alone, the hen dont need your help.