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    Can I move eggs from hen to an incubator to hatch?

    Thanks. Nobody had pipped a good 28 hours after she hatched so I took her out, but another chick did hatch last night! (That one’s still in the bator) I haven’t candled the remaining eggs since I put them in the incubator, but I saw movement at that time (2 1/2 days ago now). There are two more...
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    New Member, Hi Everyone!

    Hello! I am a chicken-keeper in Arizona. I’ve had chickens for about a dozen years now. I’ve enjoyed this site for a while but finally felt the need to make an account to ask a question about incubating after my broody went after the hatching babies (I’ve hatched dozens of chicks under...
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    Can I move eggs from hen to an incubator to hatch?

    That would be great. I usually get a 90+% survival rate with broodies (when they aren’t killing babies, of course...). I don’t want to lose any of these. One chick hatched about 5:30 PM last night (it’s 8:10 AM here now). She’s mostly fluffed out and can stand and wobble around, but still...
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    With the hot temp of Summer....

    That is actually similar to how my hen Lioness has done it. Last year she had babies in July and she was hardly on the nest at all during the day (she nested in an old tire against a shady wall...). She did pop in now and then to turn them, and slept on the nest at night. The nighttime changes...
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    Can I move eggs from hen to an incubator to hatch?

    Moved em over last night. The first baby hatched a few minutes ago! No other pips yet. It looks like my silkie rooster + one of my bantam mutt hen mamas.
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    Can I move eggs from hen to an incubator to hatch?

    Pretty darn sure. We have NEVER had problems with predators getting eggs before. Besides which, that particular hen rather hatefully attacks and beats my dog on a regular basis, chases the kids, and I’m pretty sure she’d whup any cat or rat that tried to get in there. She looks as good as ever...
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    Can I move eggs from hen to an incubator to hatch?

    So to make a long story short, I think my broody hen Spice is killing her babies. She had eight eggs. I hadn’t checked in several days but today I found a baby on the coop floor that she seemed to have hurt (it had some small wounds and died shortly after I found it, poor thing). No sign of its...
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