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she's cute

Are you counting from when she didn't get of the nest hardly? and you don't count that first day so say she started sitting on September 1, today would be day 21 and you start after full 24 hours, but remember the 21 days is a baseline can hatch at day 19 or can hatch as late as day 25, some...

yes it does. I found that out when I usually had 100% fertility and then all of a sudden 15 outta 17 were infertile for a hatch

most likely the time of year, a week or 2 before flock gets ready to molt fertilitay rate drops big time as rooster molts with them and until they all complete it won't get many fertile eggs

it hasn't so far, been an issue as it doesn't completely cover the ends are still open . another idea would be that rubber stuff they use at light the restaurants that is small mesh to keep glasses from moving all over the place, I don't like the plastic or wire ones that have come with them...

if all else fail, if you have a crock pot you can use that if you can use it for a brooder

the fun starts, one thing I do is put paper towel down before setting the eggs helps so they don't accidentally slip, have treated a lot less splayed leg since doing that

they sure are cute, congratulations on your hatch

good luck with the hatch

so sorry about failed hatch, maybe @Ridgerunner can help you figure out what went wrong with it

Usually if a hen kicks an egg out she's brooding the chick has died for some reason and could cause issues with your other eggs, if a hen kicks and egg out do not put it back under her, if it was an accident she will put it back herself

yeah sometimes they all decide to go at same time, I had one that hatched a day after the 5 that hatched back to back, GL

Those are Rhode Island white chicks a heritage breed that is on threatened list, might be a couple Ambers only the brown eggs hatched and one of the RIW roosters was out with the Rhode Island Reds. The one I thought might have Wry neck may have been due to a slipped tendon and kinked neck was up...

Final count 6 hatched and doing great, the twins as expected died in shell along with the other , looked like was about to try and internally pip but couldn't get it done

6th one is out, 3 in the left in the incubator will candle later, not complaining to bad as was scared none would hatch with the power outage on day 10 and transporting the incubator.

have never seen chicks do this, suspect one has wry neck but have 2 that keep ending up on their back, did add 2 drops of D-Poli visol and B complex to the waterer. has anyone else seen this and know what to do?

Here is the first 4 that were being trouble makers in the incubator, 5th still hasn't completely seperatd from her shell so had to stay with the other 4 eggs still waiting to hatch.

4 out so far with a 5th externally pipped, did have to help 4 at it pipped totally wrong end and was stuck

They just magically appeared out or now where , ya missed catching her sitting on the nest, I don't know but between pain , lack of caffiene and the ones hatching out , number 2 got into trouble she externally pipped but hadn't internally pipped way below the line, this one one outta the...

second is working on unzipping and 3rd is externally pipped