ScarletBegonias
Chillin' with the herd
I have only had my chickens for about a year. During the winter I keep them locked up in their coop, once the snow melts I let them roam free during the day and lock them up at night. About a month ago one of our hens stopped going in the coop. We saw her every once in a while getting a drink of water and looking pretty scraggily so I figured she had a clutch of eggs somewhere. Well I noticed her going into the raspberry bushes last week so I figured she was somewhat safe as there is a deer fence around them and she wasn’t visible at all once she was in there. Well this morning I saw a puff of feathers about 10 yards from the raspberry bushes. I’m guessing a hawk or or something like it got her. So I went searching in the raspberry bushes and found two nest, one with six eggs and one with eleven. I candled them and some had nothing, some just a quarter sized spot, the nest with six eggs all wear heavy and dense and I couldn’t see through them at all. I have never incubated eggs before, I don’t have an incubator. I put them in a crate of straw in my sunroom with a heating pad on low as soon as I found them so now what? I have absolutely no idea what to do with them or if they are even still alive, they were already cool when I found them. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you
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