I think i’m going to euthanize the egg. i candled it and there’s another crack in it. i had it removed from the hen because she wasn’t entirely devoted to it. so i put it in my incubator. i had been candling it and tonight there’s a huge web of cracks that wasn’t there before. the color of the...
I candled again tonight and it’s moving around a whole lot so I really hope it will survive. It’s shown it’s will to live. My hen would leave the nest to meet her needs and come back but sit in a different nest. I’m not sure if she got confused by the abundance of eggs or what but I have since...
Sad news. My broody broke her egg. It was maybe a week in already and she cracked it. A hairline fracture, and a little chunk dented in. It did not penetrate the membrane so I covered it in unscented candle wax. I really hope it makes it.