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Thanks! :)

The chick is now up and about with two siblings :) One of which hatched early this morning, and the other that hatched approx. five and a half hours ago, but he is now panting. I really hope he pulls through! So far he is the runt.

I feel so silly for posting so many times, but one of my chicks is panting in the incubator, and i don't know what to do! Please please help!!

Okie dokie! What is the average time for drying out? What exactly am i looking for? The first chick is out, and the humidity is at 47%. He has been out for approx. five minutes and is starting to look more silver than black, and i'm guessing this means that he is drying out. EDIT: he has not...

Our humidity is at 45% right now, four eggs have pipped. Should we risk it to increase humidity, or is it OK? One little guys only been at it for ten minutes and looks pretty close to being out

Okay, we are on daytwo of lockdown, and out humidity is at 50%. Don need to Rais it, and if so, how do I do that without opening the inqubator? We have a little giant, and one chicken is pipping.

We have pipped! I repeat, we have pipped! Yayyyyyy... I'm so happy!

What level should we keep the humidity at in an incubator for chickens? We're gonna have just about fifteen eggs.

Umm... If any of them start looking lethargic, provide them with some sugar water, and socialization is key! If you have unfriendly chicks, you'll have unfriendly hens :)

Should I candle the eggs that our hen is sitting on?

We are not completly new to the world of broody hens, as about two or three years ago we had a hen hatch us some eggs, but sadly enough, on week three of life they got got (lol). And about a year later, the poor little one legged chicken that was their mother got got as well (lol, got got...

I was wondering about letting the mama chicken out before the chicks hatch. If she wants to come out, should we let her? How long should she be out for? Thanks!

Good luck! I hope all the babies are OK!

We have our first broody hen of the season! We just found her yesterday, so we put a few fake eggs under her and left her be, to make sure she was actually broody. And sure enough, she is! We set her up this afternoon in our brooding section of the coop, and the due date is the 13th of next...

Thank you :) We set her up with the fourteen eggs and she seems to be covering them fine. Our weather is warming up pretty well, so i'm not too worried about that. Thank you very much Ridgerunner!