early bird

We had our first pip yesterday on Day 18 and 24 hours later our first chick is out. There’s another external pip now and four visible pin pricks (internal pips?). So, one hatched and 22 to go, potentially. Would you try to make the bathroom humid enough to remove the first chick? She’s now...

Hello everyone, I don't know if you will remember me but I posted a thread about me trying to hatch some chicken eggs for the first time for my friends little boy who is terminally ill, well, those eggs didn't hatch unfortunately, and it turns out the incubator temp was not totally accurate, it...

Looking for advice please! First time incubating eggs and have a duck egg externally pipped at day 20! Intermittent movement but no cheeping/sound. When candling, egg seemed to be developing faster than expected but this still seems too early! Other 3 eggs have not pipped and they are sharing an...

Hi there! Totally new to this... although I have had chickens for about 5 years now. I decided to incubate some eggs for myself this year instead of buying them. Of course, on my first attempt, I have a chick who pipped at day 17 (yesterday) and since this morning it has been trying to zip. Its...

My newer chickens turned 4 months old on September 10th. They're still very young. I went outside this morning, saw a handful of scattered feathers and immediately had to check on the birds. Everyone is accounted for and everyone seems fine, but there was one little egg in the coop! I don't...