Chicken bald back

[CheekyPekins]

Hello,

 

I'm after some advice - we put 6 eggs under my broody girl Orla and 5 of them hatched 2 days ago. I float tested the one remaining egg this morning ( as per brilliant instructions on Backyard Chickens) and I think the remaining egg is viable. Should I help it along or just leave it under Orla for a couple more days?

 

Thanks

[Beantree]

Orla will abandon it CheekyPekins. She has the rest of the clutch to look after. The only alternative is to put it into an incubator and try and introduce later, but it may have gone cold and died already.

[CheekyPekins]

I thought that might be the case Beantree... and it's exactly what she's done since my earlier post - she's hopped out with her 5 littl'uns and poor old egglet has been left. Ah well, 5 out of 6 isn't bad