I have a pair with 6 eggs and the hen is still laying but i went to check them this morning and the pair are not in the nestbox and the eggs are very cold. I have candled them and the first 3 are fertile but because she seems to have spent the night out of the nestbox will the chicks in the eggs stop developing. what would cause this to happen and what should i do with the eggs. i have been checking her for the last hour and she is not going into the nestbox, i put her into the nestbox a couple of times but she came straight back out.

Can you warm the eggs in your hands or with your warm breath and put them under another hen.

Edited April 28, 201015 yr by KAZ

I decided to move the eggs to another nest.

Hi Deb,

do you know how long before eggs were due to hatch? Finger's crossed some will survive.

I only had one other nest to put them into, it had 3 babies and one egg in it but the mum somehow knew they were not hers and would not sit on them. They were smaller eggs then her egg so she i knew which egg was hers. I keep finding the hen sitting on her chicks and egg but the other eggs were pushed to the other end of the nestbox. I left them with her for a day but she would not accept them and i had no other nest to put them into so i decided to toss them because they had not been sat on for a night and day. I realised the first hen had left her nestbox because she was eggbound.

Is she alright?

Is she alright?

 

 

Not sure if she is going to make it, i think she is on a suicide mission.The eggbound issue got fixed and she was eager to get out of the hospital cage so i was going to put her back in the aviary. When i put her back into the aviary she flew off my hand and flew headfirst into a wooden post. She fell to the ground and cannot fly or perch now. I have her back in the hospital cage and she is sitting on the bottom of the cage very quiet. i am hoping it is just shock and not a brain injury.

wow thats crazy