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Originally Posted by dinahsmum
The eggs can wait a little while Smudgley. Think if the hen was in the wild and laying one egg a day, the oldest would be sat 12 or 14 days old by the time she felt she had a large enough clutch to sit.
Hopefully she'll go back broody if you give her access to a nice nest box. Ours always seemed to stay broody for ages when we didn't want - despite being put in poultry-prison, with bare slatted floor etc
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The problem is I don't know how old the eggs were when I got them from the auction. I got them Thursday, so want to get them cooking soon. One lady at the auction said she has kept eggs for 3 weeks - then incubated them and hatched them
although the internet tells me 7-10 days max is best.
