hatching chickens

Hey guys, My daughter is hatching her second batch of eggs and we have the incubator in lockdown now. We have 12 eggs, and so far 8 of them have started wiggling. One has pipped externally. We are super excited for our second batch of backyard mutt chicks. So I just wanted to start a...

Had 13 eggs originally. I had a Kebonnix which only holds 12 eggs, so I split them between my Kebonnix and my mom's off brand (the incubator literally came with no instructions and the box was in Chinese) incubators. She took 4 and I took 9. On day 18, I had 8 viable babies with good looking air...

I’ve had chickens for quite some time now, and I’m getting some new chicks soon (in June) and some of them I’m looking to breed and hatch some eggs just for fun. I’ve seen lots of different brands and styles of incubators, and all of them have their pros and cons. I’m new to this, so any...

Any way to make egg membrane softer?? Our chicken egg membrane is so hard we could drop them and they still wouldn't bust open. I have chicken eggs for hatching and 1 has fully developed but has died. It had a super hard membrane. Just like to know how to soften the membrane. Any help is...

Hello :) So, I have this one egg due to hatch tomorrow. I've had pretty poor luck with my last few hatching attempts. My last two hatches, they pipped and hatched about two days early, with weird deformities (curl toe, small amount of unabsorbed yolk), bad hatch rates. I found out today that the...

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Hi all, This is my second ever incubator hatch, first time was just a couple weeks ago with serama babies. I had 13 eggs develop to today, 11 have hatched out and are in the brooder. The last one into the brooder I had to assist, so the temp and humidity were a bit swingy for about two hours...

So to make a long story short, I think my broody hen Spice is killing her babies. She had eight eggs. I hadn’t checked in several days but today I found a baby on the coop floor that she seemed to have hurt (it had some small wounds and died shortly after I found it, poor thing). No sign of its...

My eggs are only shifting not making a full 180 turn.Should I hand turn them or will taking my lid off ruin the whole process? They have been in for less than 24 hours but I’m worried!

:yaHello everyone! Thank you for looking at this thread. I had so much trouble with my last 4 incubations. Never hatched once.:hit I found out my incubator was TERRIBLE. Giving wrong temps, and humidity, broken thermometer, and a power shortage. I now got a new, custom incubator! (Read my last...

I know you should never NEVER run the self clean cycle on an oven when you have birds of any sort, or hatching eggs, in the house. My question needs a little background first. I’m going to try to hatch eggs next month or the month after, duck more specifically, not that it should matter I...

Hi I was wondering if I could keep my silkie chick eggs upside down in an egg carton throughout the whole incubation process not just the last 3 days. And would i have to flip them or just tilt them in the carton. In the carton will they still rotate up towards the air cell, or will them...

Hello from Campbellsville, KY . I'm a new member and I'm happy to be here. I'm fairly new to chichens and ducks. I have about 50 chickens and 15 ducks. Breeds I have at this time is barbezieux, lavender orpington, sebrights and some barntyard mix. I found backyardchickens.com all over the...

Hello everyone! I am wonderin if my eggs have a chance of hatching since there was no water put into the incubator at the start. The eggs are due to hatch this Friday or Saturday. This is the first time I have every tried to hatch eggs in a incubator, I followed the instructions on the...

Hello all, I had 2 broody hens, then 1 broody hen, now 1 egg hatching and the hen has no interest in sitting on them. The chick has opened the side of the egg enough to breath and is quietly chirping. My daughter is breathing on it to keep it warm and moist. Any suggestions? Thanks, Lilorp

Hi I am currently incubating some chicken eggs. This is my third attempt. The first one I hadn't had the temp and humidity reguleated and the second the eggs were left out to long I believe but I have finally become successful in having some chicks :D . 8 out of 10 have something in them and...

This thread is going to be dedicated to photos of my flocks of chickens, as well as updates as I incubate and raise chicks, and try out new breeds. I will start off with the story of my journey up to this point - The very beginning - 2009 We moved to a small farm in December 2009, and...

Apologies in advance for lots of reading, but this situation is rather strange and I'm new to this. Okay, so long story kind-of short...My mother wants to raise chickens. She set up an incubator etc, and put in about 36 eggs, different breeds (I had no idea she was planning this so don't know...