She did awesome!!! She ended up hatching out two chicks, and then I thought she had left the nest, so I put the peeping eggs into the incubator for a day (left fake eggs in the nest), and the next morning had one more little one. That afternoon an hour or so before bed, I took the chick out to...
Success!!! My broody (Sassy) is now raising 3 chicks. They are about 2 weeks old.
Hatch date was on a Friday, first chick hatched on a Wednesday (2 days early!). Second chick hatched Friday. One egg with a partially developed chick got smashed on Friday or Saturday (I think it got halfway...
I decided to just let my broody do her thing. I marked her eggs so I'd know which were the ones being incubated. About wo days later, two of her eggs were smashed/eaten/missing, and there was a big wet mess in her nest and dried egg yolk all over the remaining 3 eggs. We don't have egg...