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"One the first chick hatches, make sure there is food and water within easy reach, so she doesn't have to leave the nest to feed her chick." Is this food and water for the mama or for the babies? If it's for the chicks, should I put it in the coop with mama. Also, should I close the...

She was one mad mama as I took the eggs away from her last evening. I candled all 12 eggs and removed three. One was cracked and the other two did not appear to be fertilized. Of the remaining nine eggs, I could see different sized embryos that were clearly moving inside the egg. I put them back...

Tomorrow I will candle and mark them and begin removing unmarked ones daily. I do not have an incubator.

I don’t think my questions have been covered elsewhere - at least not specifically. I didn’t want to hijack someone else’s thread. Let me preface this by saying that I am a minimalist when it comes to caring for my two little flocks. I make sure they have shavings, food and water, but other than...