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I love watching them go nuts the first time they encounter dirt to bathe in.

My last hatch just got moved outside.

The last chick for this hatch is finally out. Four chicks hatched very late. I had a total of 63 hatch. 2 failed to thrive, 5 are at their new home. That leaves 56!

5 of the new babies just went on their way to a new home. This is a repeat customer, so I know she'll take good care of them.

I have around 50 chicks in the brooder. Still about 30 eggs in the incubator. These three are the first hatch of my potential songbird line.

I'm going to try to get a video of a chick actually hatching. This video failed at that, but the chicks bobbing around in the background made me laugh.

4 out, more zipping.

I heard a squeak from the incubator so I took a look. No chicks yet, but lots of pips. 82 eggs made it to lock down.

The single calico fee chick seems to be doing fine.

My fertility test is looking good! I set 102 eggs and pulled infertiles yesterday. There are 83 eggs left in there, but 10 of the eggs I pulled were from my retirement pen, which has all old birds, so not a surprise. My scarlets had the next worst fertility. Only two each pulled from my...

I'm having so much fun watching this single chick with the old hen. I opened the brooder to make sure the heat lamp was working (It's turned off a couple times), and the hen stood up, walked a bit, then shook her wings and the chick fell out.

I had a moment of panic when I couldn't find the chick...

My cats get a lot of the innards when I process. They know when it's time to come running from the sound of the shears.

I didn't get a video of the hatch...

Good luck. I doubt very much that it will survive as well. The cross beak will make it very hard for it to eat even if it does have it's entire brain.

*sigh*... False alarm. Not quite zipping yet. Just widening it's pip a bit.

My single egg has started to zip. I just put my camera into the incubator on 5:1 timelapse to see if I can get a decent video of the chick hatching.

The one egg that turned out to be fertile of the 41 that I set is quite late hatching. It should have hatched on Sunday. Yesterday there was an internal pip, though, and this morning there's an external pip. I need to go find an older hen to bring inside and see how she does with the chick...

If you can, dim the lights gradually. If you don't have multiple light sources where you're keeping them turn off one by one, you can try turning off the lights where they are but have a light on in the next room so they have dim light, then turn that light of after half an hour or so. That...