How long a baby chick can survive in incubator?

[tripletfeb]

I was waiting for someone to bring up humans...

If I have twin daughters, and they're both cared for the same way their entire lives, they are very unlikely to begin puberty on the exact same day, though it's likely they can menstruate simultaneously each month (as it's been exhibited in human females that if they spend a lot of time together, their cycles will correlate). But if one of my daughter's moves away, this won't work anymore. And even still, it's highly unlikely they will both hit menopause at the exact same time.

This 'exact' science thing just isn't true. Each chicken and each human has different genetics even in a case of twins, unless the twins are identical and EVEN STILL, it's impossible for these reproductive egg laying things to happen as an exact measurable scientific activity being the same for every flock mate or birth mate.

This is my opinion and the theory interests me, I just believe it is to be not plausable.

Going with what you are saying about twins hitting puberty at different times, I couldn't agree more! I'm a triplet and all three of us hit puberty at completely different times. One of us hit it at age 11, another at age 12, and the third at age 14(then she got pregnant at age 15, so there's that). The OP thinking that if he raises his chicks completely the same for the same outcome, makes me wonder if he is serious. His chicks would have to be clones of each other! Chicks are not an exact science, what works for one flock may not work for another. Just sayin

 

[NatJ]

His chicks would have to be clones of each other!

Some commercial chickens almost are clones of each other. (Selective breeding for very specific traits.)

But the chickens commonly sold to private individuals are not.

 

[MULENGA JK]

Baby chicks absorb the yolks before they hatch. They can live off of that yolk for 72 hours or more. That's what the post office shipping regulations are based on. A former postmaster was kind enough to come on the forum and explain that. The chicks have to be shipped within 24 hours of hatch and the route has to give a reasonable expectation that they will be delivered with the next 48 hours. Occasionally a shipment can be delayed and they run into trouble, but usually if they are delivered on time there aren't any issues, at least from them dying of starvation or thirst. If they get too cold or too hot that's a different situation.

I once had a hen where her first chick was hatched late Monday and she did not bring her chicks off of the nest until early Friday morning. That may sound like a lot longer but if you count the hours it's not a lot more than 72 hours, more like 80 hours.

There is nothing

Hi dear friends and co-workers.
There is a baby chicken which came out in day 20 and some others which would come out today and maybe in the following days.
I wanted to ask you that how long a baby chicken can survive without food or water in the incubator?
I have to wait for other chicks to hatch the eggs and get dry. And it makes a little bit longer for all to come out, and synchronize the starter program for all of them.

Thanks.

72 hours

 

[BDutch]

72 hours

This is possible but not good. Max 36 h for healthy chicks.

 

[chickencoop57]

I've left mine in the incubator as long as 72 hrs no problems with over heating or dehydrating. When I get them out and put them in brooder, I put their lil beaks in the water to learn to drink, right away and theyre good to go.

 

[TheGoldMAN]

Wow! My girls have never seen a rooster! They lay almost daily.
I wonder where they are getting their sexual activity?

I didn't mean that kind of sexual activity, I was mentioning the sexual period of chickens.

 

[BDutch]

I didn't mean that kind of sexual activity, I was mentioning the sexual period of chickens.

Can you describe that? Bc I believe chickens lay eggs most of their lives.

Even 8 year old hens lay eggs. They don’t have a menopause like humans. But they gradually lay less eggs each year.

And young roosters are more eager to be sexually active than the old ones. But the oldies can fertilise too.

 

[TheGoldMAN]

Can you describe that? Bc I believe chickens lay eggs most of their lives.

Even 8 year old hens lay eggs. They don’t have a menopause like humans. But they gradually lay less eggs each year.

And young roosters are more eager to be sexually active than the old ones. But the oldies can fertilise too.

Yes, as human, their eggs are weeker in late ages.
Meaning their potencial of getting to chickens is lower,
and the yolk in egg is looser too, or maybe 2 yolks in one egg of them.

 

[BDutch]

I've left mine in the incubator as long as 72 hrs no problems with over heating or dehydrating. When I get them out and put them in brooder, I put their lil beaks in the water to learn to drink, right away and theyre good to go.

As I mentioned before it is not recommended to leave chicks in a box or brooder without feed and water for a few days yo achieve an optimised snd healthy start. The chicks can live without feed and water for a long time but they get slowly weaker after 36 hours.

 

[BDutch]

Yes, as human, their eggs are weeker in late ages.
Meaning their potencial of getting to chickens is lower,
and the yolk in egg is looser too, or maybe 2 yolks in one egg of them.

You could be right for the egg laying hybrids.

But I never heard of this problems with the heritage breeds until they get sick or really old.

I had one 3 year old chicken laying eggs without a shell and 6-7 year old chickens laying very healthy eggs. The one with the shell problem was/got sick and died this spring. Chickens are individuals. And some breeds are quite different in health and egg laying than others.

Anyway the eggs from 4-5 years old Dutch chickens did better than the eggs of the naine de Tournaisis pullets a few years ago. But I’m not a breeder and don’t have much experience with it. I only breed for maintenance (and like to read about keeping chickens).