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Thanks for your advice. What kind of heat pack do you use?

I’m thinking they were sick or really stressed from shipping. I got a handful more & used a red light this time & still lost 2 the first night, but the rest are doing well.

Thank you so much for your detailed reply. 🙂

Thank you, I will try that. The store had them under a red light and one of them was not acting quite right in the store which ended up being the first one to die. They don’t appear to be cold, they’re not huddling together or anything, but I’ll try anything at this point. Thanks for your advice!

Purchased several chicks from Rural King & the bantams are dying. Initially, had a mix of regular size chicks & bantams mixed together, lost a handful of bantams in that batch. I hatched a few bantams before getting the first batch from Rural King & put them together with that first batch & they...

Thank you so very much for your help and advice. I did read the article, however, since this chick has already pecked a small amount of shell off, should I start there or still start assisting by poking the hole in the air cell and peeling the shell there? Also, if it's been over 24 hours since...

Please help! I'm new at incubating and hatching eggs. I wasn't intending to incubate. I had a hen sitting on 10 eggs and one hatched 2 days ago and is doing well, but she abandoned the rest of her eggs and was only attending to the one chick. I left the eggs for awhile, tried seeing if she would...