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  1. Lydia Huizenga

    June 2023 Hatch-a-long

    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...
  2. Lydia Huizenga

    June 2023 Hatch-a-long

    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...
  3. Lydia Huizenga

    June 2023 Hatch-a-long

    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.
  4. Lydia Huizenga

    June 2023 Hatch-a-long

    I only have 1 underneath a broody so far. Hopefully it does well and she’s a good mom to it.
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