Humidity is very important when you are incubating and hatching out chicks. We knew we were having some problems with the humidity because our incubator was collecting condensation on the glass. With a few adjustments, we still didn’t have it right. Which is beyond me because, they seem to do a lot better out in the wide open outdoors where the humidity widely varies day to day?
Remember when I said 100 different things have to go right before you end up with live chicks. It’s true.
We now have two chicks! And about 40 something dead ones…we think??? We will evaluate in the morning but after two very long hatchings…we finally have two very loud chicks. One is doing great. The other one is a few hours old, so it doesn’t look so great yet. Hopefully it will perk up.
Here’s a picture of the second chick hatching out. It was very neat to watch!
[…] We didn’t have a great experience hatching out chicks last month. We lost the two chicks that did finally hatch out and haven’t tried hatching out more chicks yet. However, our boys informed us that two of our hens went “broody”. The boys know how to spot this sort of thing… It is when a hen starts to sit continually on her nest of eggs. She becomes more irritable, makes different chicken sounds, fluffs her feathers out when sitting on her nest. She pulls her own feathers from her breast to keep her eggs warmer. […]