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Thank you for your reply. We ultimately decided to remove the chicks as they became spunky. Still waiting for the last two pipped eggs to hatch...or not. We hear peeping from one, but haven't seen any real progress in hours. We are beginning to suspect that the last two might not survive. It's...

Thank you for the advice! We now have 8 chicks out and at least 2 more pipped. After a lot of agonizing, we decided to remove the first 7, so we raised the room humidity (with a separate humidifier) and worked quickly to grab out the chicks. Before closing the lid we put a wet paper towel in the...

Although we've kept a laying flock for more than twenty years, My son and I are hatching for the first time. So far, we are finding the experience both exhilarating and stressful. And we have had so many questions along the way. We set 24 eggs in our incubator. The first chick hatched out...

Welcome! Glad to see more NH people here. I'm down south in Derry:).

I'm sure this question has been asked before and is somewhere in the archives, but I couldn't find it, so I apologize for the redundancy. My son and I are getting ready to start a new flock. We have raised chickens for about the past 10 years and have had some flocks that were extremely pecky...