Quick update, 3 have hatched, one still has the unbiblical cord on its rear end. No more hatching yet, I candled them and looks like 2 more chickens and 1 duck still!
I have 4 broody hens, and after they lay their clutch of eggs they will get up once a day for food water and to go to the bathroom. On day 20 my hens stay on the nest all day following with day 21 and 22. Good luck! Normally they do get up every once in a while
I am so so sorry for your loss, one time I had a mother hen and my favorite chicken jumped in the coop with her, her foot got stuck in the chicken wire. The mother hen was protecting her chicks but she ripped her scalp off. I could see her scull and when I found her she was still alive, I gave...
Yeah, I wrote it down on the calendar, should I turn the incubator up at all? We put them in so the will hatch before Easter, do you think they will hatch before then or even on Easter?