hatching chicks

You might remember me posting a thread about weather to hatch chicks with a broody hen or an incubator. So we're using our hen Butterball and she is sitting on 19 eggs but only 10 our fertile. So I wanted to know if anyone has some tips on how to hatch eggs or what they do when they start...

Today I bought two chicks from the store to put under my hen when her own eggs hatch, I got a buff orpington and a blue laced red wyandotte. I named my orpington Honey Bee, but I’m struggling with a name for my wyandotte, and other names for my chickens chicks might be nice(she is a welsummer...

I have had an issue with a number of baby chicks pipping but never succeeding in breaking out of the shell. Day 1 and 2 I see some small progress, but by day 3 the cheeping ominously stops. Is this an indicator of something I am doing wrong with the incubator/humidity levels/temp? Any insight is...

Hello BYC! This is my first time posting, although I’ve read a lot on the site prior to tonight. I am hatching chicks for the first time. I rescued them from a local university- they were left over from a developmental class and were going to be destroyed :-( The eggs I got were at varying...

I have been helping the local 2nd grade hatch chicken & duck eggs. Unfortunately, our hatch hasn't gone so well. We have had a very low hatch rate with the chickens (the ducks come next week). I am hoping to get some answers so we can improve next year. Any advice would be appreciated. So...

Hello! A little over a week ago (I'm not 100% sure if it was just a week it may have been 1-2) my white silkie hen, started sitting on one egg. I usually leave the eggs there if they're sitting on them just in case something ever happens with it. I left it for about a week and I checked it a few...

My babies love their Pretend mama! I placed a 10” piece of my daughters old feather boa into the new hatchery and my babies just fuss over it. They cuddle in and bury themselves into the mass of fluff! Highly recommend this for your new peeps!

Hi. I have a hen that went broody a couple weeks ago and at first I was taking her out of the coop and was going to start attempting to break her of it but she was very determined, so I decided to let her go ahead and hatch a few chicks. The last time I did this was with my little Silkie and I...

Hey! So one of my hens became broody and we decided to let her go through with hatching the eggs. The only problem is I’ve never done this before. All of the chicks have hatched okay and they are peeping away happily. However, I had to help one chick out of its shell and it’s still attached...

Hello all! I am incubating four emu eggs that were shipped to me and are all due by the end of April. If I get one of four, or even less.. are there any emu breeders in Colorado selling chicks or hatching eggs? I may be looking for some chicks if that happens to be the case. Any information...

I know you should never NEVER run the self clean cycle on an oven when you have birds of any sort, or hatching eggs, in the house. My question needs a little background first. I’m going to try to hatch eggs next month or the month after, duck more specifically, not that it should matter I...

So I lost track of the number of days and ended up turning my eggs up to day 20. Obviously, I was supposed to stop turning and lock it down on day 18. Did I mess it up irreversibly or could I still have viable babies? We are now on day 23, no rocking or pipping to be seen...

We currently have 7/8 day old chicks hatched by my broody. I ended up setting 15 mixed eggs into an incubator on the 26th. (I'm a glutton for punishment, what can I say?!) I have an extra thermometer/hygrometer inside. It self turns every 2 hours and had been working great. Note, I said...

Have a broody hen and would love to put some eggs under her to hatch...specifically looking for black copper Marans, would take other color Marans as well no mixed or if anyone has a few extra fertilized heritage turkey eggs I am interested let me know if I can't find anything will just have to...

we have 2 Indian runner duck eggs in a Brinsea advance mini incubator . Originally 4 but 2 weren't fertile . On day 30 we heard tap tap tapping but after 24 hours could see no pip so after much deliberation decided to quickly look and see if chick has pipped underneath and sure enough it had and...

Hello everyone! I am wonderin if my eggs have a chance of hatching since there was no water put into the incubator at the start. The eggs are due to hatch this Friday or Saturday. This is the first time I have every tried to hatch eggs in a incubator, I followed the instructions on the...

My firstborn baby chick cannot walk, however my secondborn can. Is there a problem? The firstborn is noticably larger than the secondborn, and the firstborn is only a few hours old, the secondborn even less. Is there a problem or is this normal? Help!

I wanted to share something that I am witnessing on my farm, that doesn't seem to be anywhere on the web. I have 2 sets of chickens. The first group are those who follow the rules & live in the pens. I feed & water then, just like any other coop. My second group, are rogue! They refuse to live...

My broody hen, a cuckoo maron named Pajamas, just hatched her first chick out of 6 eggs! She has never hatched before but she has already successfully raised two flocks of chicks. My question is this: How old do the chicks have to be before I start handling them?

Hi I am currently incubating some chicken eggs. This is my third attempt. The first one I hadn't had the temp and humidity reguleated and the second the eggs were left out to long I believe but I have finally become successful in having some chicks :D . 8 out of 10 have something in them and...