Strange

[Country Squire]

This morning whilst the broody was feeding, I could hear cheeping, so I had a look at the 2 eggs that she was sitting on, (the other 4 were infertile) and could see that one of the eggs had a small beak popping through. This afternoon, I went to see the broody to top up her feed. I waited for her to raise off the nest to have a feed, and looked at the the 2 eggs. The same chick from the same egg in morning was dead, still curled up in the egg. I could see that the chickhad been working it's way out. These 2 eggs were 4 days late. There was no sign of breaking through or tapping from the other egg, so I cracked it open, and again another chick had died, but perfectly formed. The first chick I examined and could not see any signs of possible pecking from the broody. I'm a little stumped as I've not had chicks die in this way.

Can I have you views on this please?

 

[daniellesdogs]

my mums hen has been sitting on eggs and even thoug some are formed they didnt hatch at all over a week late.
she has now pinched half of the other brodies eggs so will see in weeks time iv got a hen sitting on 8 too cant wait
iv only had chicks hatched in incubator and even some of those dont make it ou shell

 

[Frenchchickens123]

Never happened under my broody but only done that once. On one of my incubations I had the same thing happen 20 out of 26 made it out fine, 5 didn't hatch and one started in the evening, in the morning it was dead, still in the shell, it was on time too day 21 so very strange. I'm afraid I can't give and explanation but I do hope the next ones do better and you have some little chicks

 

[ncotb]

A lot of people seem to be having DIS, me included. The weather has been so changeable, really warm days, cold nights then damp it must affect things.

 

[dorinda]

I've never had DIS until this year - a lot of people seem to have had this problem - all over the country - I've no idea why -

 

[Cheviot]

Hi,
It's a relief to hear its not just me thats had DIS problems this year, just thought I was rubbish at incubating.
Regards
Sue