Incubating late in the year

I hope this isn't true. I usually purchase chicks but we had a bad spring with coyotes so after some major reconstruction I opted to hatch. I figured the kids might want to be more involved if they could see the hatching. This is my third hatch and there's no change in any involvement with the family and the chickens. It's still mom's thing, haha

 

I've not heard that before. I have silkie chicks I just hatched and Bantam AMs in lockdown. Silkies are up and running around like crazy.

 

I think it's fairly well known that spring chicks grow biggest, so if you're hatching birds for showing and you want them to be as big as possible, you really have to hatch them in the spring. But for plain old normal backyard birds, any time of year works fine for me. I hatch all year round nad haven't noticed any difference in health or hardiness. Just a slight difference in size...

 

my hen hatched 10 healthy chicks this winter