hatching and brooding chicks

  1. E

    Chick medical care

    Hey! I recently tried incubating quails for the first time but it didn’t work. Fortunately, my hen at home had 3 chicks on Saturday! This morning, she had her 4th chick, and the first thing I do when I get back home from school is i check on the chicks. I only counted 3, and i felt very...
  2. poultry person

    Incubator or Broody hen?

    Hello crazy chicken people! I have 13 hens and two roos, and my sister and I are going two hatch for the first time this spring, we don't have an incubator yet but two of our hens are starting to go broody. My neighbor is moving and she is going to sell us her little chicken coop, I'm wondering...
  3. shiro5

    When to Remove Unhatched Eggs from Under Broody

    My hen has been sat on her nest since 1st April. The first hatched on the 22nd and the last hatched about 8am on the 23rd. She has five chicks, 2 of which have found their way to the food and water next to her and have dug in. When do I removed the eggs that haven’t hatched yet? I do have...
  4. MiBirds

    Urgent! Is this egg fertilized? Does it look normal?

    Hello! A little over a week ago (I'm not 100% sure if it was just a week it may have been 1-2) my white silkie hen, started sitting on one egg. I usually leave the eggs there if they're sitting on them just in case something ever happens with it. I left it for about a week and I checked it a few...
    • MiBirds
    • Thread
    • egg eggs fertile fertilized hatch hatching hatching and brooding chicks hatching chicks hens slikie
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  5. MaiyaTurtle

    Help Me Please!

    Ok so, I am freaking out because I had my Silkie hen laying on 3 eggs for over a week, I was unable to check on her for 3 days and I went in the coop today; she was in a different nest! I REALLY want these eggs to hatch, and I don’t know how long she was off, it could have been 3 days. I am just...
  6. J

    Help! Mother hen got on wrong nest

    Hey all first time posting! I finally decided to let a my chickens gather enough eggs to hatch me some babies! Its been about 2 to 3 weeks. This mother hen is super awesome she stays on all night and day. Gets uo to poop and eat gets back on. Last night we started to freeze i got uo this...
  7. orangesplash

    The chicks are not hatching!!

    i stopped egg turning on the 18th day and today is the 20th day and no signs of hatching
  8. ChickenGirl555

    Black Belgian D'Anver Bantams--Broody or Not?

    We are thinking about making a metal shed coop and moving our current flock of 6 (soon to be 10)into it. We put a lot of effort into our current coop and originally thought that it would be the coop for winter since it is just easier to move around and get fresh grass weekly with, and the shed...
  9. chickyrookie

    Help! Day 18 troubles...

    I been researching everywhere on how to increase the humidity of incubator. This is my first batch ever and I'm using Little Farm 9300. For the first 17 days, the humidity read 42 degrees most of the time. Now I added a drenched sponge near hole opening and I can only get it to read 46-48...
  10. Lins_BE

    when is lockdown?

    I’m a bit confused with dates now. I read two different things. Some say day 1 is the day you put your eggs in the incubator and some say you should start counting dat 1 when they have been in for 24 hours. All resources say to lockdown at day 18. I put in my eggs on monday the 26th of...
  11. clembrier

    SvartHona/Svart Hona Chicks WV/VA

    I have Svart Hona hatching eggs Six for $20.00. A few Svart Chicks for 20.00 each. Three pullets and one rooster that were hatched in October, $50.00 each or $180.00 for all. I can meet within reason. Thanks!
  12. M

    Is my hen broody?

    Just today I noticed my hen sitting in the nest while I was calling them to give them treats and she was the only one to not respond, so I further investigated by placing eggs beside her and she tucked them under her and pecked at me when I got too close, and this is not normal behavior. Does...
  13. M

    Incubating ducks and chicks together?

    Hello! I’ve been looking at everything I can find on incubating chickens and ducks and finally decided to just join this group cause it seems to have a lot of answers to my questions! So I just wanted to say thanks! I incubated one batch of chickens and ducks and had good results on chickens...
    • Momma Jo
    • Thread
    • hatching and brooding chicks hatching and brooding ducks incubating chicken eggs incubating duck eggs
    • Replies: 32
    • Forum: New Member Introductions
  14. L

    Planning on hatching some chicks. Any tips?

    So come spring i would like to try and hatch some chicks as I've wanted to do this for ages now, however i can't really spend much money on incubators and brooders so I've decided to do it the "natural" way and have one of my hens do all the work for me and i have done a lot of research into it...
  15. Hannahschickys

    Help broody hen hatching

    Hi guys this is my first broody hen and she has a staggered hatch trouble ik 1st chick came 3 days ago 2nd chick 2 days ago broody was leaving nest all the time to look afta babies she has another 8 eggs under her. They keep going cold bc the babies which have hatched keep venturing off bc shes...
  16. T

    Looking for advice and guidance in hatching and raising Emus

    So I am looking to embark on a new chapter in hatching and raising Emus. I have done an abundance of reading and have learned the following: 1: Eggs need to be incubated at 97.5 degrees F. 2: Eggs hatch roughly 50-60 days once incubated. 3: Rattie birds require a special diet and feed and also...
  17. Windus

    Headed to Mexico to hatch eggs - going to be a adventure!

    This weekend I am headed to Mexico for two weeks. I am going to a small island and one of the locals has asked me to bring him an incubator so that he can hatch eggs and give chicks to the very poor people who live there. Going to be a lot of fun teaching him how to incubate the eggs! Just hope...
  18. highaltitudechickens

    New member, New to incubation

    Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Not new to chickens, I was raised on a ranch and we usually always had chickens. We have also had several flocks through our working years. I am new to incubation though, just hatched our first chicks. (2) How many chickens do you have...
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