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I'm sure that you have discovered that all is fine, by now. Chicks can survive without food or water for 72 hours, as they live off the yolk that they absorbed in the last 3 days of incubation. Normal process. Hens DON'T provide food and water to them. She shows them how to find it on their own, but they don't get it from mama.