Why aren't they hatching?

[flapjackfarm]

I posted about a week ago that my OEGB has been sitting on a clutch of 12 eggs. It has now been 34 days and they still haven't hatched, but I candled 8 of them just now and it looks like the contain chicks. What happened?

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

12 eggs is a lot for a small bird like an OEGB to cover. I'm guessing she had too many and couldn't keep them warm enough.

 

[flapjackfarm]

I guess what's confusing me is the fact that it looks like there's chicks in the eggs. I could see feathers.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

They can still develop. They just wont be kept warm enough for them to develop correctly or they'll be too weak to hatch.

 

[flapjackfarm]

That's really sad. I've never hatched eggs out and I didn't plan to. She kept going missing and I found her sitting on the eggs. I usually research before I do anything with my animals, but this just kind of happened. Had I known, I may have gotten an incubator.