New chicks

[Kelsie2290]

Hello and Welcome To BYC!

 

[Mountain Peeps]

Welcome to BYC! Please make yourself at home and we are here to help.

Yorkshire Coop has given you excellent advice.

 

[drumstick diva]

Once a chick starts eating/drinking the other will usually imitate it. Good luck with your chicks.

 

[lyndseybr]

Okay so my first hatching was a flop I think. I started out with 12 barred rock red rock eggs. On day nine we can book them all but two were fertile. Candled on day 18 before we closed everything up and there was movement and all of them. On day18 I raised humidity to 65 to 70% I only ended up with two hatching one of which we had to euthanize because it had a slipped tendon and one rotated femur on the other leg. Days 1 to 18 were kept at a temperature of 99° and between 50 and 55% humidity
If they are in a forced air incubator with an automatic rocker. This time I have acquired eggs from a barred rock rooster and a white splash rooster from barred rock hens, americana hens, Isa brown hens
36 of them are going into the incubator in the morning to help improve my percentage of hatching what would people recommend I try differently this time? There are so many different opinions and so many different variables I'm finding it overwhelming to troubleshoot when this is only my second time.
I hope all this makes sense I'm using my hands-free device to type for me
Here is a pic of one that I opened. What would have been day 28:

 

[Book Em Danno25]

 

[ChickyChickens]

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