new to baby chickens. help!

[runchickenrun]

i first started getting eggs about a month ago, and i dont have an incubator yet. there's one particular hen that never moves from a few eggs ive left out there. i know the best way to hatch eggs is with an incubator, but i was just curious if any of the eggs would hatch...

how do i tell if the egg is fertilized or not?

anything else on eggs will be helpful. im getting an incubator at some point!



thanks
-chicken poope

 

[hiddenmagnolia]

Do you have roosters so that the eggs can be fertile. If so, it takes 21 days for chicken eggs to hatch. Hens do a very good job of hatching out eggs. Some times better than a bator.

 

[ginbart]

 

[runchickenrun]

we definently have roosters. actually, after i posted that, i was looking through some other things on the site and took a flashlight out to the coop. two of the eggs have veins and a little chicken!! one doesn't look as developed as the others, but ive still got hope. im just excited that i may have baby chickens soon! how do you know when they're going to hatch?? i think it'd be neat to watch them hatch...