) for a whole week so I got her 12 eggs (a mix of Vorwerks, Black / blue / splash copper Marans, 1 precious Cream Legbar (the guys Legbars stopped laying the week I needed eggs!) and a tiny tiny Pekin bantam). It has been a comedy of errors with her breaking an egg (I think it was an accident when getting up or settling down) on about day 5 and there was a little tiny chick embryo, me moving them to the incubator in a panic. then I broke one on day 14 - still alive breifly - it just slipped out of my hand. Then I gave them back to her again then she tipped 5 of them out (or possibly me I've discovered when I cover her box with a pallet at night
it is tipping up and I could have tipped the pan she is in a bit which means the eggs that fell have no hope (including the Cream Legbar ). One of those 5 had a chip in it - luckily no broken membrane so I sealed it with wax (luckily I'd read about this so knew what to do. So the 5 that got tipped out I put in the incubator. A day later I checked and 2 were definitely dead (so now down to 8!) but couldn't see the others as they are chocolate and blue I am however prepared for the worst. My remaining concern was the tiny tiny egg as I read that bantams often hatch a day or so before big birds and I feel that as she is so young and inexperianced that it would be too much for her to have a spread out hatch so I decided to bring the tiny one in with the plan to sneak it under her when her others hatch. so yesterday I spotted her off the nest adn went to grab it and check on them and I found a crushed egg
I grabbed both and headed back to the house. I looked carefully at the crushed one and amazingly the membranes were still intact. As it was already day 18 I decided to not bother trying to seal it and just put it in the incubator. Today amazingly J spotted movement - you can see it breathing or heartbeating or something 
I'm so glad I didn't just get rid of it! Thankfully when I was reading about repairing the other egg I'd spotted similarly destroyed eggs so knew I could have a chance! They are due Saturday so we shall see if it makes it!
