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Matlock585 Good luck with your hatching. I guess this will be an experience! I've always made fun of my sister who takes in dogs and has around 15 of them. Now I have more chickens than she has dogs....as long as she doesn't find out, I'll be ok! Good Luck!

Well, 9 of 12 eggs had hatched last week, Monday and Tuesday. While waiting for the other 3 to hatch (they never did BTW) my lovely daughter found that our broody hen in the coop decided to quit sitting on her eggs so she called me at work and asked if she should put them into the incubator. I...

Thanks!! I was thinking partridge too.

Here are some of our new babies. Can anyone tell me what color silkies these may be?

Yay for pips!!! I've got 5 chicks out of 12 eggs so far!!!! gotta go to bed and then work tomorrow.....its going to be a very long 12 hour shift!!

I've read the same about being good for 3 days after absorbing the yolk. So I guess they will stay in there until at least tomorrow evening! Thanks for your replies!

I have a question for everyone. Using a Brower THI30 Top Hatch Incubator--forced air--...... How long can I leave the chicks in there? One hatched this morning and two more hatched this evening. Several other eggs have pips but nothing more so far. I work a 12 hour shift tomorrow and won't be...

No new hatches yet but 4 have pipped!! The one little guy is just chirping away and climbing all over the other eggs. I think he wants to play!!

Day 20 and 1 chick has hatched and 2 more pipping!!

Ok, I just did something incredibly stupid!! We were candling eggs and the lid of the incubator slipped and cracked two of the eggs. I was just sick. Once we were finished candling we have movement and veins in all but one egg!! Then I remembered that the other day when I candled there were...

Do you mind if I join? We actually had a broody hen sitting on 1 egg and it hatched on Jan 13! It is just so cute. I had been collecting some of the eggs from our silkies and saving them just in case that egg didn't hatch. Now I've got the fever so we bought our first incubator on the 15th...