Thank you so much for this video! I'm incubating for the first time and thought it was taking too long for the chicks to hatch after they started rocking and peeping. Now I'm no longer anxious but excited and hopeful ❤️
Thank you. We are hatching today for the first time. We have 2 out and I was nervous about them bumping into the unhatched eggs. Thank you for all the great information.
Hi Shellie! I just watched your video of all your baby chicks you hatched out! They're so cute! Brings back memories of my childhood! My grandparents raised me and they had chickens. I always loved the baby chicks. When I was about 5 years old, my brothers and I got Easter baskets full of dyed chicks, all different colors! They weren't allowed to dye chicks after that because the dye could harm them. I just 💘 loved my Easter basket that year! Baby chicks always bring that memory back to me. Out of that basket of chicks I ended up having a pet chicken that stayed with me like a puppy. She always laid triple yolk eggs. She was some kind of huge white chicken. I enjoyed your video very much!💜
Thanks Marcia, I hope all is well with you and your husband. It's crazy how fast time is going by. I really realize it now that I'm a mom. I'm glad you found my channel!
If a chick is dry and others are hatching and you want to remove that one chick you can add real warm water to the incubator to get the humidity back up.I do it all the time.Never had a chick die from shrink wrap in the egg.
@Farm Mom I have some questions: 1. If I have a chick that has hatched and is really weak should I remove it or leave it in with the other chicks? 2. while the chick is in the egg can you tell if its a hen or a rooster? 3. When the chicks are put in the brooder do they establish a pecking order? 4. If I have a egg that has piped and struggling to hatch should I assist it with hatching? 5. Should I candle the eggs to see how the chick is developing? 6. If there’s a chick who is struggling to feed should I mash up a bit of chick food with some water and assist feed the chick with a syringe? 7. Should I weigh the eggs to see how far they are developing? 8. What’s the age of the chick when it starts to grow feathers? 9. When the chicks are put in the brooder should I change the bedding every day? And lastly 10. If I had a chick hatch with a deformity like a crooked neck or leg should I try to raise it to adulthood and also try to correct the deformity?
I was so excited to see my chicks hatch . you are amazing. i sure would like to talk with you over facebook to thank you personally and ask more questions. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR INFOMRATION
Awe, those baby chicks are sure cute! I hope the rest of the eggs in your incubator hatch. When I was growing up, Mom and Dad bought baby chicks (broilers) from a local hatchery every spring. One year we got a little white one that didn't grow fast like the rest of them did. I claimed her as my pet, mom and dad didn't have the heart to butcher 'Cluck Cluck'. She started laying eggs and finally had to give her away to a neighbor who had a hen house. Thanks for reminding me! 🐥
Thanks for watching. I used a clear 250watt bulb. It was spring time though and temps here were still getting below 50 degrees at night. The red heat lamp is also 250watt same output of heat. They also make a 125watt which would put out a less heat.
Thanks for watching Sotto! Day 1 to day 18 you want your temps between 99.5-100F degrees for a forced air or 101-102F degrees for a still air. Humidity should be no more than 50% from day 1 to day 18. At lockdown you want your humidity between 65-75%. The temperature should be around 98F degrees at lockdown. Good luck!
Thanks for watching! When first starting your incubator prior to putting the eggs in, yes you can use warm water. (Not hot). Give your incubator anywhere from 24-48hours to come to the temperature and humidity that you desire. If you have hatching eggs in the incubator already, try to add water as close to the temperature that your incubator is currently reading. The biggest thing to avoid is large temperature spikes or decreases. Good luck!
We are hatching our own chicks for the first time. Yesterday was day 18 lock down day. So we pulled out the egg turner. We noticed one egg was already piping! This morning at 1:30 am we have a baby chicken out walking around. How does an egg hatch at day 18 is that odd?
Thanks for watching Stephen! Yes, you keep the heat going until the day that your done hatching and you unplug it. They only thing that you will change is the temperature and humidity at lockdown. Good luck.
Thanks for watching. I wouldn't move the eggs at this point. The embryo has really started to grow and mature. The temperature and humidity difference could affect them drastically.
Hi there, I had to find a post that would let me comment. I have the exact incubator, borrowed from a friend. 20 viable eggs on day 13, looking good. Said friend dropped off 2 turkey eggs to put in his incubator on Sunday. Now I have 2 calendar's going. PROBLEM: I can not get humidity stabilized. I filled the troughs, put small Tupperware of water and then finally added 4 sponges, 1 at a time. Humidity stayed around 30. Yesterday it was at 50, 55 and today is at 68. We did have rain come in over night. Argh!!!! I'm just really worried I won't be able to get it high enough for lock down. Help!!! Any suggestions.
You can fix spay legs and curled feet. Feet sandwich between blue tape one day, fix legs non stretchy bandaid cut into small strip pull legs into were belong usually 2 days. While bones still soft
Thanks for watching Eco Cambra! In this video I had 38 eggs in the incubator. All together 27 hatched. 3 were born with bum legs or somewhat deformed and the other 2 didn't make it overnight in the brooder. ( some can be more week that others). So all together it was between 71-72% hatch rate. (with the ones that passed) . After that with the live ones it was around 60%. I hope this helps, have a great day!
@@farmmom7140 thank you for replying, I was wondering due to the conflicting results I've heard from others about laying the eggs on their side vs standing them up during lockdown. Have you ever tried standing them up during lockdown to see if it changes hatch rate? Oh and for the ones with bum legs, sometimes if splinted together early enough they can recover and walk normal after a day. Its called spraddle leg I think, had a few chicks come out this way and I used a 1/2 piece of a plastic straw and a small rubber band through it to help keep the legs close together but at correct distance, another method is to use that self sticking horse bandage material to loop around legs and pinch the material to itself between the legs.
Thanks for watching! The temperature for day 1-17 should be 99.5 if you have a forced air incubator or 100-101 degrees. for a still air incubator (with no fan). At lockdown day I drop the temperature by 1 degrees.
Oh, how cute! I hope the the dog is not going to eat any. I am curious how to distinguish between hens and roosters....I have no idea. My grandma had chickens and chicks but I was little and don't remember details like that. Hugs
So at about 1-3 weeks old a hens tail will be much longer and feather up then a roosters tail at that age. A rooster tail with start to properly develop at about a month old
I would rather have a hen to hatch the eggs than an incubator. I used to have chicken and it was always a pleasure to see the hen taking her babies to the yard. The new races have lost their natural instinct.
I guess the saying of don't open the incubator during lockdown doesn't pertain? I see you still have unhatched eggs and your opening the incubator to remove chicks. So does that mean those eggs possibly shrink wrapped as well?
What day did you go to lockdown in your incubator? (Day 18)? Are the eggs cracked from the chicks or were they like that during incubating? If your accurate on your dates the first pecking thru usually starts on day 20-21. Also some breeds of chicks can hatch sooner like bantams.
@@farmmom7140 my eggs cracked but didn't hatch. I lockdown on the 18th day. I have 3 hatched on day 20th. I waited another day until evening. The cracked eggs, the chicks just died in it. So please advise me how to fix it. Temperature 37.2°, humidity 65 to 72
Thanks for watching! Do you know the breeds of the hen and rooster? The chick will start to get its true color starting at about week 3 when it starts to get its pin feathers. Yes, normally you would see a darker chick. The hen and rooster could be crossed with something else that was lighter. Keep me posted!
@@farmmom7140 they are Easter Eggers. I just looked closely at the chick's wing tips and they are black! I am uploading a video now. My internet is slow lol
@Farm Mom I had a friend who had a unnoticed clutch of 7 eggs hatch inside their large chicken coop he noticed it when he let them out they look so cute following mum around the large wire fenced area but my friend had noticed the Barred Rock/Leghorn cross rooster Mr Cockodoodles who’s the big boss of the large flock has been jumping up onto a feeder and eying off that particular hen with the chicks for a while and then he suddenly jumps down and makes a beeline towards her the chicks noticed what was going on and huddled up against her and she squatted down on them with her wings and tail covering them up and Mr Cockodoodles jumped on her back and held her by the neck feathers and attacking her with his spurs trying to mount her the mother hen was crying out and her chicks were chirping loudly he was trying to kill the chicks and breed with her my friend got a broom and pushed him off of her and away from her the poor traumatised hen laid there with beak open panting with her chicks huddled under her and this isn’t the only incident involving him the first Rooster that used to watch over the flock was overthrown and killed by Mr Cockodoodles and he took that role of being top bird.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm incubating for the first time and thought it was taking too long for the chicks to hatch after they started rocking and peeping. Now I'm no longer anxious but excited and hopeful ❤️
Thanks for watching! Good luck.
I had my first ever chick hatch out today ( in Cornwall UK). It is SO sweet!
Your video was helpful, and confidence-giving. Thank you. Rosemarie.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching Rosemarie. Good luck with your baby chicks!
You gotta love hatch day,,,it's like the best birthday ever lol...
Thanks for watching!
Thank you. We are hatching today for the first time. We have 2 out and I was nervous about them bumping into the unhatched eggs. Thank you for all the great information.
Good luck!! Such an amazing experience! Thanks for watching Sherri.
thanks, sheila. that really put a smile on my face. It looks like fun. take good care of those hatchlings. carmine.
Ah, thanks! We'll see how many we end up with.
Hi Shellie! I just watched your video of all your baby chicks you hatched out! They're so cute! Brings back memories of my childhood! My grandparents raised me and they had chickens. I always loved the baby chicks. When I was about 5 years old, my brothers and I got Easter baskets full of dyed chicks, all different colors! They weren't allowed to dye chicks after that because the dye could harm them. I just 💘 loved my Easter basket that year! Baby chicks always bring that memory back to me. Out of that basket of chicks I ended up having a pet chicken that stayed with me like a puppy. She always laid triple yolk eggs. She was some kind of huge white chicken. I enjoyed your video very much!💜
Thanks Marcia, I hope all is well with you and your husband. It's crazy how fast time is going by. I really realize it now that I'm a mom. I'm glad you found my channel!
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I really enjoy your videos. I love chickens and I raise then, but now I know the process for an incubator. Thanks for sharing .
Thanks for watching my videos. Keep me posted if you incubate eggs.
Thanks. I finally found a channel I like on this subject. New follower here from Texoma
Thanks Kristen! Welcome to my channel.
Thanks for the video, I’m hatching my first ever chicks right now. I appreciate the info, thanks again.
Had my first two eggs hatch today❤❤❤ very thankful… excited :)) thanks for the advice
Finally get some sleep tonight, lol.
Mike did you eat all the cheese things from the refrigerator yet?
Amen! Thanks for watching Mike. 😊
This is Mike's African friend. I think you're channel is better. Keep up the good work.
Hey Henry!! Welcome to my channel!!
I enjoyed your videos I’m about to start my first batch this year ... I needed a refresh how to incubate
Good luck! Keep me posted!
Very cool! Our first egg is starting to hatch today!
That is awesome! I'm so happy for you.. Enjoy, they're so much fun!
If a chick is dry and others are hatching and you want to remove that one chick you can add real warm water to the incubator to get the humidity back up.I do it all the time.Never had a chick die from shrink wrap in the egg.
Thanks for watching Sarah! Yes, you can definitely do that and still have a great hatch rate.
They're so cute and fluffy 🐣
I love this part!
Awesome 👍 I can stop asking Mike if the chickens are here yet lol very cool video
Thanks for watching!
My dogs are so confused because they make the sound, but they don’t look like any of their toys, lol thanks for sharing 👍
Great video
Thanks for watching Phillip!
Thank you
Thanks for watching!
My adult chickens sleep with their heads in the dirt or grass too! It's super scary but super cute at the same time.
These chicks 🐣 look cute
Thanks for watching!
@Farm Mom I have some questions:
1. If I have a chick that has hatched and is really weak should I remove it or leave it in with the other chicks?
2. while the chick is in the egg can you tell if its a hen or a rooster?
3. When the chicks are put in the brooder do they establish a pecking order?
4. If I have a egg that has piped and struggling to hatch should I assist it with hatching?
5. Should I candle the eggs to see how the chick is developing?
6. If there’s a chick who is struggling to feed should I mash up a bit of chick food with some water and assist feed the chick with a syringe?
7. Should I weigh the eggs to see how far they are developing?
8. What’s the age of the chick when it starts to grow feathers?
9. When the chicks are put in the brooder should I change the bedding every day?
And lastly 10. If I had a chick hatch with a deformity like a crooked neck or leg should I try to raise it to adulthood and also try to correct the deformity?
Hi Shellie!I watched your video on the day that I was going to get my own chicken eggs!
Very good video,thank you for taking the time to share with us+
Thanks for watching!
I was so excited to see my chicks hatch . you are amazing. i sure would like to talk with you over facebook to thank you personally and ask more questions. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR INFOMRATION
I'm so glad they hatched for you! I don't have an official Facebook page but you should be able to find me there under my name, Shellie Kincaid.
thank you mom
Greetings from ph
As long as you use a spray bottle and spray the incubator every time you open it, you can open it as much as you want
Great idea, thanks for watching!
Nice one ,, will try it,,
Thanks for watching!
Awe, those baby chicks are sure cute! I hope the rest of the eggs in your incubator hatch. When I was growing up, Mom and Dad bought baby chicks (broilers) from a local hatchery every spring. One year we got a little white one that didn't grow fast like the rest of them did. I claimed her as my pet, mom and dad didn't have the heart to butcher 'Cluck Cluck'. She started laying eggs and finally had to give her away to a neighbor who had a hen house. Thanks for reminding me! 🐥
I hope so too!
A really good series on hatching chickens, great helper too. What kind of chickens are they?
Thanks for watching. They're a mixture between Brahams, Barred Rocks, Ameraucanas, and Salmon Faverolle.
Did you use a red bulb for your heat lamp? It's summer and I don't know which bulb I should use. It's my first time.
Thanks for watching. I used a clear 250watt bulb. It was spring time though and temps here were still getting below 50 degrees at night. The red heat lamp is also 250watt same output of heat. They also make a 125watt which would put out a less heat.
My first time hatching chicks, 4 eggs ... LockDown started today. Cross my fingers and hoping for st least one baby
Thanks for watching! How did your hatch go?
Is it hot or cold???
Exciting. Nifty video, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Was the one that was laying down still drying or dead?i was just wondering
Dead....sadly
I had 4 live eggs at lockdown. 2 have hatched but it's now day 24. How long should I wait to discard the other 2 eggs?
How did it turn out?
Whats your temperature and humidity at the last 3days😘
Thanks for watching Sotto! Day 1 to day 18 you want your temps between 99.5-100F degrees for a forced air or 101-102F degrees for a still air. Humidity should be no more than 50% from day 1 to day 18. At lockdown you want your humidity between 65-75%. The temperature should be around 98F degrees at lockdown. Good luck!
awwww so cute
Thanks for watching!
Thank you! This is really helpful :)
Thanks for watching!
do you put warm water in your brooder?
Thanks for watching! When first starting your incubator prior to putting the eggs in, yes you can use warm water. (Not hot). Give your incubator anywhere from 24-48hours to come to the temperature and humidity that you desire. If you have hatching eggs in the incubator already, try to add water as close to the temperature that your incubator is currently reading. The biggest thing to avoid is large temperature spikes or decreases. Good luck!
We are hatching our own chicks for the first time. Yesterday was day 18 lock down day. So we pulled out the egg turner. We noticed one egg was already piping! This morning at 1:30 am we have a baby chicken out walking around. How does an egg hatch at day 18 is that odd?
So cute
Thanks!
Cheerful people ❤️❤️🙏🙏
Thanks for watching!
How sweet
Thanks for watching!
My hen hatched a chick out on day 20, it's day 21. I need to move them out of the main coop eventually or the others will peck them lol
There's so cute
Thanks for watching Layton!
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for watching Crystal!
Do you keep the heat in the incubator until the end
Thanks for watching Stephen! Yes, you keep the heat going until the day that your done hatching and you unplug it. They only thing that you will change is the temperature and humidity at lockdown. Good luck.
Can I move Incubator eggs of Day 12 under a broody hen?
Thanks for watching. I wouldn't move the eggs at this point. The embryo has really started to grow and mature. The temperature and humidity difference could affect them drastically.
@@farmmom7140 thank you
Did one didn't make it 😢???
Hi there, I had to find a post that would let me comment. I have the exact incubator, borrowed from a friend. 20 viable eggs on day 13, looking good. Said friend dropped off 2 turkey eggs to put in his incubator on Sunday. Now I have 2 calendar's going. PROBLEM: I can not get humidity stabilized. I filled the troughs, put small Tupperware of water and then finally added 4 sponges, 1 at a time. Humidity stayed around 30. Yesterday it was at 50, 55 and today is at 68. We did have rain come in over night. Argh!!!! I'm just really worried I won't be able to get it high enough for lock down. Help!!! Any suggestions.
Show!!!Ganhou mais um inscrito colega
You can fix spay legs and curled feet. Feet sandwich between blue tape one day, fix legs non stretchy bandaid cut into small strip pull legs into were belong usually 2 days. While bones still soft
What was your hatch rate? example 24chicks out of 41 eggs
Thanks for watching Eco Cambra! In this video I had 38 eggs in the incubator. All together 27 hatched. 3 were born with bum legs or somewhat deformed and the other 2 didn't make it overnight in the brooder. ( some can be more week that others). So all together it was between 71-72% hatch rate. (with the ones that passed) . After that with the live ones it was around 60%. I hope this helps, have a great day!
@@farmmom7140 thank you for replying, I was wondering due to the conflicting results I've heard from others about laying the eggs on their side vs standing them up during lockdown. Have you ever tried standing them up during lockdown to see if it changes hatch rate?
Oh and for the ones with bum legs, sometimes if splinted together early enough they can recover and walk normal after a day. Its called spraddle leg I think, had a few chicks come out this way and I used a 1/2 piece of a plastic straw and a small rubber band through it to help keep the legs close together but at correct distance, another method is to use that self sticking horse bandage material to loop around legs and pinch the material to itself between the legs.
Hi, what is the ideal temperature during day 1 to 17 and day 18 to 21? Thanks
Thanks for watching! The temperature for day 1-17 should be 99.5 if you have a forced air incubator or 100-101 degrees. for a still air incubator (with no fan). At lockdown day I drop the temperature by 1 degrees.
@@farmmom7140 thank you so much...
The humidity is 65 to 72. Temperature is steady at 37.2° .
Thanks for watching, do you have chicks hatching right now?
@@farmmom7140 Yes, my chicks just hatched like 3 or 4 days ago.
Oh, how cute! I hope the the dog is not going to eat any. I am curious how to distinguish between hens and roosters....I have no idea. My grandma had chickens and chicks but I was little and don't remember details like that. Hugs
So at about 1-3 weeks old a hens tail will be much longer and feather up then a roosters tail at that age. A rooster tail with start to properly develop at about a month old
Thanks for watching Cami!
It depends on the breed really some are obvious (self-sexing) others are really hard to tell for us normal people til they grow up
@@liv160 thank you
@@shannonfbc1 thank you
What’s the latest a chick has hatch ? How many days
Thanks for watching! The lasted I've had a chick hatch is day 24. That's assuming that all the fertile eggs were put in on the same day of incubation.
Take out all vents on day 18.
I would rather have a hen to hatch the eggs than an incubator. I used to have chicken and it was always a pleasure to see the hen taking her babies to the yard. The new races have lost their natural instinct.
Unfortunately I’ve tried a few times for my girls to hatch their eggs, they get so close them the eggs end up squished.
Yes! We only hatch when our hens go broody.
My hens were too lazy to sit themselves 😂
Not ready for the commitment of children, I guess.
I guess the saying of don't open the incubator during lockdown doesn't pertain? I see you still have unhatched eggs and your opening the incubator to remove chicks. So does that mean those eggs possibly shrink wrapped as well?
I have a question. I'd like to know y lots of my eggs already cracked during the lockdown days. But can't hatch out?
What day did you go to lockdown in your incubator? (Day 18)? Are the eggs cracked from the chicks or were they like that during incubating? If your accurate on your dates the first pecking thru usually starts on day 20-21. Also some breeds of chicks can hatch sooner like bantams.
@@farmmom7140 my eggs cracked but didn't hatch. I lockdown on the 18th day. I have 3 hatched on day 20th. I waited another day until evening. The cracked eggs, the chicks just died in it. So please advise me how to fix it. Temperature 37.2°, humidity 65 to 72
@@farmmom7140 my incubator is one of those 56s. I only got 20 chicks.
I have a black hen and a black rooster. They just hatched their first chick and it's yellow! Is that normal? I was expecting a black chick
Thanks for watching! Do you know the breeds of the hen and rooster? The chick will start to get its true color starting at about week 3 when it starts to get its pin feathers. Yes, normally you would see a darker chick. The hen and rooster could be crossed with something else that was lighter. Keep me posted!
@@farmmom7140 they are Easter Eggers. I just looked closely at the chick's wing tips and they are black! I am uploading a video now. My internet is slow lol
If they are Easter Eggers they can range in color. The one determining fact is that they will have puffy cheek feathers.
Lmao I can smell this video I’m a Florida boy & we take pride in our speed if you can’t catch a chicken or a rabbit you’re slow
Thanks for watching!
We have 3 more days and I'm afraid only one out of 12 are actually developing 😢
@Farm Mom I had a friend who had a unnoticed clutch of 7 eggs hatch inside their large chicken coop he noticed it when he let them out they look so cute following mum around the large wire fenced area but my friend had noticed the Barred Rock/Leghorn cross rooster Mr Cockodoodles who’s the big boss of the large flock has been jumping up onto a feeder and eying off that particular hen with the chicks for a while and then he suddenly jumps down and makes a beeline towards her the chicks noticed what was going on and huddled up against her and she squatted down on them with her wings and tail covering them up and Mr Cockodoodles jumped on her back and held her by the neck feathers and attacking her with his spurs trying to mount her the mother hen was crying out and her chicks were chirping loudly he was trying to kill the chicks and breed with her my friend got a broom and pushed him off of her and away from her the poor traumatised hen laid there with beak open panting with her chicks huddled under her and this isn’t the only incident involving him the first Rooster that used to watch over the flock was overthrown and killed by Mr Cockodoodles and he took that role of being top bird.
In 0:10 The baby chicks wake up in 5 am every day so sorry about your sleep
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McDonalds thanks you for the new stock of nuggets
Thanks for watching! 😀
Doggie nuggets, right?
Not a fan of shavings. chicks may eat shavings if they are not first introduced to only food.
Thanks for watching.
Never had a problem myself..6 years hatching
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Thanks for the thumbs up!