Comments on: Hatching Chicks From Eggs – 1

By: Terri

Terri — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:44:29 +0000

HELP!!!! I have a pair of Pekin ducks and the female has been laying eggs……however my chicken hens want to set on the eggs!!!!! I keep moving the hens into the other nesting box with their eggs but the next day they will be right back on the duck eggs……are my duck eggs ruined? Will a chicken hatch duck eggs…..I know she wants to but are they similar in body temperature? GRRR I don’t know if I should destroy the duck eggs or not, please help!

By: tauqir

tauqir — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:39:55 +0000

today i put hen eggs for hatchery in incubator i could not adjust the thermostraite for temperature I put the eggs in the morning and I checked in the evening then temperature was 108.I do not know what temperature shoud be. pls guid me what temperature should I fix. thx

Tauqir.

By: marcy

marcy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:23:06 +0000

I have silky sitting right now on 5 eggs its little late in season so will see what will happen its so acciding to watch them hatch. I hatched little chick in the incubator this summer and he turn yout to be very nice rooster oh well we love him anyway

By: Isabella

Isabella — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:09:58 +0000

It is the 23rd day and my \chicks didn’t hatch yet?

By: April Sanders

April Sanders — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:34:15 +0000

I am incubating 5 Australorp chicken eggs right now. They are peeping inside their eggs so I know they should hatch soon!
I have used this blog to show all my students what a chicken looks like inside of an egg. My Kindergarteners were amazed! Thank you for such great pictures!

By: jotis

jotis — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:17:37 +0000

hi i found a egg yestarday a duck egg.now the mom abanded it i have the in a beany in a heated box 99.5F .what do i do now i flip it every few houirs please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

By: nicholas

nicholas — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:41:31 +0000

hiya i have got some geese eggs in my incubator i have to an dark orange patch i see porsein them but i still dont know if the are firtile i am confused ?????

By: alexis

alexis — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:25:04 +0000

i try a store egg yesterday and i think i see viens i think it is working if you have some information on have to keep egg warm without light and incubator tell me

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:45:46 +0000

What can I use to write on the eggs without hurting the newly forming chicks? We have about a dozen under a broody hen right now but the others chickens keep laying more in that box– we’d like to mark the ones we hope will hatch but be able to know which ones are new so that we can take them out each day???

Thanks, Sue

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:54:12 +0000

Sabrina, great question. We’ve actually never hatched eggs outside of having a mother hen do all the hard work. Here are some good resources:

http://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-hatch.html

http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=5