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Chicken chicks? Somebody's gonna have a busy stewpot! 😋

I'm gonna be carrying out a bucketload tomorrow, too. My duck eggs are rockin' and pippin'. Chicken chicks gotta go out to the greenhouse.

Grass!!! :drool:thActually it's real nice today, but not much in the way of grass yet... fine green threads, immediately cut off by any bird or cow lucky enough to spot one.

No... That is totally fertilized! 😀

It's so sad to lose one like that. I'd rather they just did nothing... That said, 5-6 out of eight is an excellent hatch rate! Have fun with your itty-bitties and congrats on a successful hatch!

Baby steps... :lau

I don't know... it looks to me like it's alive in your pics. I see red veins. It just doesn't have that static, "dead" look to it. Does it seem to move at all on its own? Of course it's hard to tell in a photo, but it just kind of looks a day or two out, yet. Not ready to hatch. Could it have...

If you haven't already, I would put in a box, upside down, with a front and back door (for circulation). It can be a little cave for them. They can huddle together in there and keep one another warm. Put them all in so they get the idea. When you want them to go to bed you can put them in and...

It's a cutie! Buy it a chick friend. Guineas who think they are chickens can become dangerous to chickens when they mature sexually.

I had a couple silkies similar to that in my last hatch. I've tried vet tape and it's too stiff, I think. I grabbed the nearest sticky thing--a roll of scotch tape, split a length to half its width, and used that. It's easy--worth a try. Make sure when you give him his little hobbles that his...

You are a hatchin' maCHINE, Ft Cluck! :lau

And I still can't see into the olive eggs with it. Almost like trying to gaze through sheetrock. 🙄

DH got one as a gift from one of his boys--like a bazillion lumens. Candle fast, because that baby will cook the eggs and burn your hand, and it's not even incandescent. :eek:

Candling is not a requirement. With the super dark eggs, it's hard for an experienced person to see in, no matter when you start doing it. Once they're about to hatch, you usually can't see much of anything in any of them unless it's right by the air cell. Hope you have a great hatch and a very...

You could put one of the others in the incubator with your new hatchling. I would wait though, until it's done flopping around and mostly sleeping. Pick the littlest one.

Not I. I can't even remember them when I'm sleeping. :lau

Go to bed. It's late there. Besides, you are an old hand now. You go to bed knowing all will be well. All that ought to hatch will hatch. Not helping often saves one from having to cull. There will be peeps in the morning!!! Santa won't come unless you go to bed now! 😋

HOBBIT FEET!!! :love :love :love

No. Leave it alone. They can take up to 24 hours.

Whenever you open your incubator it will try to compensate by turning the heat on full. Then it spikes and it turns off the heat. Eventually it gets back to an even keel. During all this see-sawing, the temp inside the eggs (where it matters) stays relatively stable. You can get remote...