Peckyweck01
Songster
So I just had 4 chicks hatch around the same few hours, and they stink really bad like ammonia! I have hatched chicks before, usually as many as 15, but they never stunk. Why do these chicks stink so bad? I set up my larger incubator and put them in it once it warmed up, then I cleaned my 7 egg incubator they hatched in since I had 7 eggs. 6 of them were fertile so I threw the one out. Anyway, 2 fluffed chicks are out of the incubator and under a lamp. But the other 4 haven’t dried at all yet and they hatched about 8 hours ago. I got the small incubator completely cleaned out but it still smells a little. My chicks are so stinky they stunk up my big incubator by being in there for about 5 mins!!