I did my check of the two eggs Ken the hen has been sat on for three weeks - pick up egg, hold to ear, tweet very loudly like you're another chick that's already hatched and saying 'Come on - it's time!' - and I heard one of them moving around in the egg!
It was a strange noise really, a sort of squelchy noise as the dormant chick came to life and started moving around within its' little shell. Next it has to work out that it has to peck its' way out of the shell - which can take up to 24 hours - and then, if we're lucky and it isn't exhausted in the process, there will be a new Orpington/Cochin cross chick. Maybe the other one will hatch too.
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