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Yeah, I fully agree (without having ever raised chicks with a broody😅). I now do have my 12 bantam Silkies, they are 6 weeks old, so still not sure about boys and girls yet, but I think I have about 8 girls. I'm sure the girls would be wonderful broodys. My mother is in love with bantam...

I know what you mean and it is a good point. ...He actually was very pleased with the hatch rate after wondering from the start if 'anything will hatch at all' (adding a young rooster very late - the pullets had been with his 10 years old bantam Brahma the whole time and he didn't think the 10...

Yeah to be honest I was a bit reluctant knowing all the eggs were from pullets. And I was a bit overwhelmed with the plus of responsibility also hatching eggs for someone else (it was my first time hatching chicken eggs) with my shipped eggs I already felt a huge amount of responsibility. He...

Thank you for your input, LaFleche. You are absolutely right - the egg was a big pullet egg. The friend who lent me his incubator wanted me to incubate eggs from his chickens along with my shipped eggs. All the eggs he gave me were from pullets (bantam Brahma x Deutsches Buschhuhn) and all the...

I'm so sorry you lost your little one :hugs

Thank you for replying and for your kind words RosemaryDuck. I felt so sorry because the little one was so close. But I understand I will never know why it happened.

Thank you for answering Tonyroo. Do you think I could have saved the chick? Seeing the yolk sac not fully absorbed made me think a lot about this question, I assumed there would have not been a chance because the chick seemed not ready to hatch the moment it died? I fully agree I should have...

Thank you for your answer MissE. Yes I really hope it was not my fault.

I wanted to ask you all for your opinions, thoughts and experiences. I hatched eggs for the first time. From the 28 eggs that went into lockdown (some of them blue and green eggs I wasn't able to see anything when candling) 23 hatched. One egg (the chick would have been the 24th) did have an...