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One of the banty hens I hatched under a broody last September went broody, as much as I tried to convince her it was not a good ided she carried on so I purchased 6 Welsumer hatching eggs off a well known 'net auction site [miss purple banty, the broody hen came from the same web site and was one of a 5 which hatched from 6 eggs]
She has been sitting since the 6th June, [didn't want to tempt fait by letting you all know] on the 9th she booted two eggs out the nest box, took us ages to see they had hairline cracks, next day found the shell & some of the insides out the nest box, not sure if that one broke as it was booted out of was deliberateley pecked & eaten. To day the 10th day we check her eggs & found one with a tiny pin prick & yolk seeping out, binned that then & attempted to 'candle' the othe two eggs, dark shells but I'm pretty sure they were clear.
I am not sure what I'm looking for so placed them back under the broody banty.
Would she sense that the eggs are dead & boot them out. I have 'Specs' my mad speckaldy sitting on 6 Cream Crested legbar eggs & she seems to be doing OK.
She has been sitting since the 6th June, [didn't want to tempt fait by letting you all know] on the 9th she booted two eggs out the nest box, took us ages to see they had hairline cracks, next day found the shell & some of the insides out the nest box, not sure if that one broke as it was booted out of was deliberateley pecked & eaten. To day the 10th day we check her eggs & found one with a tiny pin prick & yolk seeping out, binned that then & attempted to 'candle' the othe two eggs, dark shells but I'm pretty sure they were clear.
I am not sure what I'm looking for so placed them back under the broody banty.
Would she sense that the eggs are dead & boot them out. I have 'Specs' my mad speckaldy sitting on 6 Cream Crested legbar eggs & she seems to be doing OK.
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