Age difference with chicks

[McChooky]

I'm trying to time hatching eggs in my incubator with the arrival of baby chicks next month.

 

[junior67]

I'm trying to time hatching eggs in my incubator with the arrival of baby chicks next month.

good luck! I tried to get some to hatch at the same time but had issues with the eggs being fertilized. first batch would have been hatched about 2-3 days before I got my chicks, 2nd batch I tried would have been about a week after I got them..... HOPING I have the fertility issues figured out so debating if I should try to get them so they hatch 3 weeks after the chicks I am getting or wait and have them hatch when those chicks are 6 weeks old or so and hopefully out of the brooder..

 

[McChooky]

good luck! I tried to get some to hatch at the same time but had issues with the eggs being fertilized. first batch would have been hatched about 2-3 days before I got my chicks, 2nd batch I tried would have been about a week after I got them..... HOPING I have the fertility issues figured out so debating if I should try to get them so they hatch 3 weeks after the chicks I am getting or wait and have them hatch when those chicks are 6 weeks old or so and hopefully out of the brooder..

I can't be sure they're fertile but I have a rooster. I'm doing a trial run in a diy incubator to work out all the kinks before I set a batch in them.I have 6 weeks.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

did you end up getting other chicks and putting them together?

I did get more, they were only about 9 days old though. The size difference seemed big to me at that point comparing 11 days vs 2 days old but not crazy. More so I wanted to have the newbies on a heat lamp for a few days after traveling so I kept them separate as the bigs were on a brooder plate already. So probably 4 days separate just for logistics.

 

[junior67]

I did get more, they were only about 9 days old though. The size difference seemed big to me at that point comparing 11 days vs 2 days old but not crazy. More so I wanted to have the newbies on a heat lamp for a few days after traveling so I kept them separate as the bigs were on a brooder plate already. So probably 4 days separate just for logistics.

Thank you.