Yes, the hen does turn the eggs. They need to be turned several times a day and supposedly, this keeps the embryo from resting on the shell, as it can become attached to the shell as it grows. If you’ll ever notice, sometimes in a boiled egg, the yolk is off center and there’s hardly any white on one side or the other. We stop turning the eggs on Day 18 so as to allow the baby inside to get positioned to hatch itself on Day 21.
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