staggered hatch

Can someone please help. I have a broody hen who was determined to sit so we let her. I tried to make sure all eggs were from the same day so they’d hatch at the same time I even marked them with an X. I go to check a few days later and found 6 extra eggs. My daughter apparently added a few...

Hi! Here I am with another one of my silly beginner issues. So as you might know from my last post, I have a broody chicken that has been sitting on 4 duck eggs for about 3 days. I fear 3 of the eggs might not be fertile, a realisation which had stupidly not come to me till yesterday (more on...

I have a turkey hen sitting on a clutch of eggs rn. I thought both of my hens were broody but it turns out one of them had still been laying and my other hen would just put the new eggs under her. I didn’t know until a few days ago when I candled them and noticed the differences in development...

With 1:30 roosters to hens ratio I am afraid there will be below normal fertility at my next hatch. I am wondering if instead of removing infertile eggs I could replace them with fresh ones and by that increase number of eggs that will develop. I would have to do it as early as possible. So...

Hi all, So, I was experimenting with a home made incubator because at the time I had fertile eggs but no broody. I started incubating the eggs and then my hen went broody about half way through their incubation! I figured the best chance they would get is if I give them to my broody, even...

Nine beautiful chicks hatched between yesterday and today. One egg left - but it’s very late. It looks like its on Day 15 when candled - but it’s the same age as the others (I’m pretty sure). It did get cold at one point. It was moving a lot when I checked it. Anyway. My plan is to keep it in my...

hello everyone! I am happy to announce that my first hatch is nearly over! It has been a long and stressful road. From an unclear start date of natural incubation, to a finnicky and somewhat unreliable incubator and thermometer. To begin, I was unsure what the start date of incubation was. Mama...

Hi all, This is my first time hatching. I have a Nurture Right 360 set up and ready to go. I ordered some shipped duck eggs and also bought some other duck eggs locally to fill the rest of my incubator. I had carefully tried to avoid this exact situation, but unfortunately my shipment is...

Hello Everyone! This is my first time incubating eggs! Technically it was my parents endeavor but I have been home from college and seemed to be the only one interested in researching the best incubating/ hatching tips! We've had chickens several times but never incubated any eggs (we...

Hello all, I am curious if this would work. I set some silkie chicken eggs 4 days ago. That means they have (roughly) 17 days to go. Could I put some Coturnix quail eggs in there as well, now? Since they will have 17-18 days til hatch, it’s not really even staggered. I would lock them down on...

Greetings! Question for all my chicken folk! I put 3 eggs in the incubator Sunday night 03/08 and then put 6 shipped eggs in the same incubator the following Wednesday early morning 03/11. A difference of about 3 days. Trying to figure out when to put the eggs on lockdown and how to work the...

Howdy folks! I have been having trouble keeping track of where I have posted and where I have not in response to hatch a longs, so I have decided to create a thread where I can (hopefully) keep a running dialog going about what is currently hatching. I have 4 (or 5?) incubators going for the...

Hi, I am a newbie and accidentally started a staggered hatch. They are four days apart, and the first batch has 2 live eggs, whereas the second has 5 (eggs were delivered and in the first batch 4 were delivered dead). The first batch is on day 14, and the second is on day 18. The eggs seem fine...

Another hen joined in on my broody hen about a week after she started. Two eggs were laid at some point. The original hens eggs hatched. Both hens came off the nest and are sharing the chicks. I took the two remaining eggs and candled them. they’re both alive and maybe a day or two apart. I’m...

Hi everyone, I have silkie and pekin bantam eggs due to go into lockdown in 2 days. In the same incubator I have various large fowl eggs that are 4 days behind. I don't have another incubator, so when the first set of eggs go into lockdown would it be OK to not turn the other set until the...

Alright everyone, I need some brains to come together and tell me how they would manage this hatch. Sorry I’ve been feeling very needy of all of you recently. Lol! I have 12 silkie eggs arriving (shipped) tomorrow. I was planning on waiting 24 hours before setting. However, I will also have 6 or...

So we have a staggered hatch and unsurprisingly it has not gone well. Over the last 3 days we have found 3 hatched dead chicks and one crushed egg with a fully formed chick in it. The most recent chick was shoved to the edge of the nest and I am worried that perhaps the nest might be the...

Hi! I have a first-time broody who has been stealing eggs from her sisters. Pepper started with five, and over the course of the next week, added 5 more, two and three at a time. I marked the first eggs, but not the second, thinking she was done. Then the third batch arrived. Now I have no idea...

TL;DR - I've got 20ish eggs due May 2 and 2 due April 24th and one incubator. How do I do lockdown for three days for the two eggs, while the other 20ish are still in there needing the turner going? I thought about taking out 2 rails of the turner, so they have some hatching space, or building a...