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We live outside of Stanford. We would be more than willing to meet you somewhere on HIghway 87 with some chicks later on if you are interested. Have fuzzies hatching right now!

Hope this is OK to post here, but my wife and I are currently hatching Black Copper Marans between Great Falls and Billings, and we were wondering if there is any local interest in baby chicks or started pullets. Send us a message, or reply back, and we will get in touch with you. These are...

Steer clear of pine needles. The aren't absorbent and contain a high acid level. We use pine shavings.

WARNING!!!! Extremely addictive and known to cause poor decision making. Raise chickens at your own risk.

In my opinion, this is a very hard decision. If it was the last egg in the incubator, and the chick has pipped, but is starting to weaken (less noise....), I am all for helping it out. You do run the risk of "shrink wrapping" other unhatched chicks if the humidity drops drastically from going...

Final tallies are in for my wife's and my first hatch. 10 Black Copper Marans eggs hatched (50%) 1 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte hatched (16%) 3 Blue Ameracaunas hatched (27%) 2 Mutt eggs hatched (50%) Adjusted hatch percentage for infertile eggs: 41% (I know we can do better.) The Blue...

My poor broody decided that early January in Montana is a good time to set. We put her in a dog crate, and I let her out for 15 minutes in the mornings. (By let her out, I mean I physically make her get off the eggs.) I have been heating up a cloth bag with a couple lbs of rice in it to 101...

Final tallies are in: 10 Black Copper Marans eggs hatched (50%) 1 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte hatched (16%) 3 Blue Ameracaunas hatched (27%) 2 Mutt eggs hatched (50%) The Blue Ameraucanas were mostly dead in shell without having broken into the air pocket. We are thinking our humidity after...

Officially 14 have hatched now with 9 of those being black copper marans. One more bcm egg has pipped.

Day 23 and 2 hours. 13 live chicks with one new pip. So far all of them are going good, and the BLRW is looking fine. We are slowly trying to work the saran wrap/super-glue bandage off him.

We had 8 eggs either clear or with blood rings on day 14. We had to cull 4 more on day 18 due to slow progress, and left 7 in the incubator that had significant progress, but looked like they had halted progress. Of the 22 "remaining viable eggs", we have had 9 hatch so far. We currently have...

Here's Everyone: Blue Ameraucana Chicks: Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Chick: Black Copper Maran Chicks:

Alright......the BLRW chick has a death wish. After helping him with his egg sac, super gluing him shut, and getting him warmed all up, we thought he would take a nice nap. Well, he decided he was going strong enough to climb on top of the other eggs and stand up high enough to get his beak...

Here's one last update before bed. All the eggs that pipped have hatched, so we have: - 3 Black Copper Marans - 2 Blue Ameraucanas - 1 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Hopefully more will pip tonight! There's a nice littly symphony of cheeps to cheer those others along. Blue Ameraucana (front)...

We had a black copper maran hatch at about 8 PM. Very healthy and active! The little wyandotte is doing better. We decided to follow some advice here on BYC (post #8 of this thread) to gently push the yolk sac into the abdomen with a wet q-tip. The chick is very active now, so hopefully...

Day 21 was today at noon. The blue ameraucana came early at 6:30 AM. The blue laced red wyandotte (second chick) isn't doing so well. Naval started to bleed after wrestling with the ameraucana. We've separated them, but I don't think it'll make it. Just about 6 PM here now, four more pipped...

2 to 3 hours in a forced air incubator. This is our first hatch also.

Number two just hatched, but it appears his navel is protruding and has a touch of blood on it. Hope things go well for him.

Here are a few pictures of the first blue ameraucana chick (More in this flickr set). About 10-15 minutes after hatching: So tired that it tripped, ended up on its back, and fell asleep before it could get up.

My wife and I set 41 eggs (11 Blue Ameraucana, 6 Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, 20 Black Copper Marans, and 4 Easter Egger Mutts) on the 5th of January. We woke up to the sound of a very anxious Blue Ameraucana who zipped and hatched in 25 minutes. We have had four more pip over the last 4 hours...