Half of the eggs were given to the Houston Zoo.
Researchers plan to raise the birds for re-release in the wild.
The Attwater's is said to be the bellwether species of those endangered. Attwater's prairie chickens once numbered in the millions along the Texas coast and throughout Louisiana. This year, the recovery team counted only 79 males, meaning that if each male has a mate, there are now only 158 wild birds in the world. That compares to 229 males counted in 1993, Silvy said, a startling 65 percent drop from last year's population. Some have blamed heavy rains, but we've had heavy rains for years and years.