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Ok here’s my take. I have only hatched for the past 4 years and have read as much as possible not wanting to do harm and have a good hatch rate. I experimented and came to some interesting conclusions although not scientific by any means. I tried dry and wet. My hatch rates were low with dry...

Hi all, Problem…. Chicks started hatching yesterday. So far 8 out of 12 hatched , humidity level was around 65-70% during hatch. I left and went back in a few hours late and the humidity level is now 95%. The chicks are all wet and drying because of that. What do I do ? It’s been 93-95%...

3KillerBs, Thank you for your response. I figured that the hen would keep the eggs warm in the winter but my question is that the eggs that were in the nesting bo went three days before she started to sit on them and I was worried about if the cold affected them being no hen was on them as...

3KillerBs, Thank you so much for the article, A lot of great info. I read it hoping to find the answers to my questions but unless I am having a senior moment my questions were not answered.

I have a broody hen, which is a Buff Orpington, This wasn't the case until I started leaving eggs (11 total) over three days. I marked them so I could use the fresh ones. I did some reading and saw that I could have used golf balls but didn't find out until after. Now one has sitting on...