Hatching Chicken Eggs Start to Finish - For Beginners 

Awe, perfect little video!! We are 7 days away from hatching our first baby chicks! 🐣

This was terrific....a great video for a beginner because it is by a beginner and you can feel the little bit of nervousness about doing it right. Thanks for videoing it all and talking about things running through your mind as well as tidbits of info you learned. Jesus bless.

Oh how precious! Thank you so much for sharing. It's such an incredible process and blessing! Beautiful little miracles you have there!!! ❤🐥❤

Nice incubator. Those eggs are beautiful. Nice trick to color the water! So cool y'all could actually see a little foot.

Thankyou! So much fun, and info!!

You seem like such a precious soul. Ty for this video! It was very informative. I’m hatching my first chicks and was looking on RU-vid for guidance. I’m so glad your video came up. God Bless!

Awesome video! I’m on day 20 and can’t wait to start hearing the chips and the eggs breaking. I wanted to ensure what to do right after hatching and your video helped me a lot. I’m gonna watch now your other video about it. Thank you very much!

Thanks - think you answered most of my questions on incubation and early life for the chicks - once I finish the coop I look forward to putting this into practice.

This was a helpful guide. Especially food coloring in the water. Hadn’t thought of that

Your observations about the timing for the hatching helped me a lot! Thanks!

The first chick helps the others hatch. They talked to each other through their shells. I have also noticed over the years that the chicks running around and bumping into the other eggs hatching stimulates them and they get out of their shells earlier. I just loved watching your hatching video I've got eggs coming and I can't wait to get back into it. Oh and I've also learned from my own experiences over the years if you incubate your shipped eggs standing up for the first 7 days you tend to get more eggs hatching I also live in the south where we have high humidity so I have to dry hatch or I will drown my chicks in their eggs. I don't add any water to my incubator until I check them on day 14 if they're air sacs are bigger than they're supposed to be I add water and if there's still too big I let them go into lockdown. Again I loved your video and good luck on your future hatches I will be here to watch.

Beautiful thank you very much !!!

So informative! The cat and dog helping was awesome lol

I just love the way you're teaching us thank you very much

Thanks that was exciting

What an awesome video!!! I’m on day 18 today. My babies will be here shortly god willing! Thank you for the informational video as this will be my first hatch as well!

GREAT VIDEO. THANKS

Such a great video 😊 thanks

Thanks for posting this! Mine will hatch soon, and I’d purchased the same incubator so you really helped me! Thank you! Thanks for “insight into this!”😊

I really appreciate the information

Great video lots of info on care after hatching. Much appreciated

Very nice and humbly explained❤

Wow

Awesome video!!

Just hatched our first chicken over night. Very exciting.

I'm getting ready to start incubaking some chicken eggs, we did get a few from hatching out last yr.

You did a great job😊!

Thank for VERY great video shot and egg yolk information.

You did a wonderful job ma'am

Lovely video, thank you🤗🤗

Country Girl Grit watching from Myrtle Beach S.C. I love this video

odlično posneto..perfect...lp iz Slo...

I love how excited you get about seeing the foot. So cute. :)

I have 5 eggs currently pipping right now. It's currently day 21, well, it will be technically at 5 pm tonight. I'm nervous, excited, and afraid of doing this, but I also have experience in raising chicks and have had a hen hatch out a batch last year. Yes, I know Mama did the work, but it's still considered experience. Anyway, I have knowledge of incubating and honestly... some of it is just common sense. Now the water I didn't know anything about. But the temp and not opening the incubator was pretty well common sense for me. The average body temp of most animals is between 98 and 100, so yeh. What I didn't know was that you stopped turning the eggs around days 16 and 18... I wonder how mom knows that one 🤔, but I digress. It does make sense, tho. None the less I'm very excited, and so are my children ❤

So good video ❤️

Thanks for the video! I'm on day 16 currently and the anticipation is killing me

Very informative video. Bubba set his eggs on January 30, 2023. I am so excited soon we will have our first hatch

They're cute 🐣

Thank you so much for sharing this. You explained everything really well for people like me who know nothing 😊. The video was very enjoyable to watch.

What an awesome video!! Thank you! Keep on with your positive vibe!!!

It’s the humidity

I have used incubators and had decent luck but the best in my opinion is a few good game fowl hens to incubate my eggs. They will cover 10 to 12 eggs easily and they are the best mother's ever. They will protect the clutch like no other.

Cute video! What breed of chickens are these?

The one thing the kebbonix has is the dark top. The 360 has a white top and it interferes with the light. Try cutting a hole in dark fabric. Drape it over the 360. You will see a much clearer picture! The incubator is great. Just wish it was not white plastic that let the light right through.

Yeah

I'm a newbie and "our" wild Muscovy duck laid 4 eggs behind my fountain and then abandoned them. I had an incubator that I bought a few years ago and so I got it out and put them in there. I'm trying to learn all I can now about the process. Is "lock-down" when they are close to hatching and you no longer remove the incubator lid to check on them? How long do baby chicks/ducks stay in the incubator once they hatch?

I put 18 eggs in there at my school last week

This was a wonderful video how did the chickens do after they hatched?

Hello this is a bit random but i need some advice. my chick hatched, it's cord is still attched to the egg. What concerns be is there's bit of blood around the abdomin. Has my chick herniated? Is the blood normal? My chick is reactive, doesn't seem lethargic but again the blood worries me. I read you can snip the cord, but other people say let if fall off on it's own, but does this apply to to my situation seeing that there is blood? I've never delt with this before. Any information would be great thanks so much for sharing your video

I have the same incubator. Were successfully hatched 5 times now. I gave up on candling because it is hard to tell anyway, I just wait see which ones hatch and which don't. I notice I always start getting chick on day 19 , every time. I've never seen the "yolk" attached

Awesome video SoilSista! We are on day 20... I'm so nervous because eggs have stopped moving but noticed a little while ago one is cracked. Thanks for this great information 💕

Hello thanks for the video. How long did you leave the chicks on the incubator before you transferred to the box?

This video was awesome. Would you recommend leaving the chickens in until day 23 regardless of if all are hatched or not. Also what are the needed materials for when you do remove them from the incubator? We’re currently on day 14 and will be candling again tonight to check the eggs. Any and all information would be appreciated.

I have the exact same inqubater may I ask what the colored water is for my chicks are actually piping right now !!!

Good information, please share birds, Eggs hatching video.

Will sharpie not hurt the chick inside the egg i read to only use crayon or a pencil to mark the egg in the incubator

hey what incubator do you have and my chicks been out for 2 days and cant walk and cant eat by its self help me out plss

Wonderful video. We are eight days away from hatching and I'm so scared that some eggs are bad. Gonna candle again on day 7 and remove questionable ones I guess.

I've collected eggs on different days of a week. Incubated for a week now, some seem developed, others i cant tell bc they were collected on different days. I was just wondering if you or anyone has ever gone through with different hatch rates due to the eggs collected on different dates before incubation.

I had 2 hatch & when they were fluffy I put them in the brooder & the 3rd one I went to put it with the other 2 & they started pecking him so much so I put him in the incubator till the morning I hope it's different then does anyone have this happen to them & if so any advice on what to do

The humidity is to keep the eggs shell soft/porous enough for chicks to break out.

ITS A FOOT! hahaa you made me laugh... 3 more days left for my chicks to hatch

can anyone recommend any cheap (preferably under 30) incubators that actually work

How long do you keep them in the incubator before you move them in the box

Do I count day 1 from today or is day 1 tomorrow as it says 00

Hi My name is Eric. I would like to thank you very much for your informative video you showed at RU-vid channel concerning how to hatch chicken egg through incubator. Please will you kindly send me the actual name or product of the same incubator you used for the chicken hatch?I would be looking for the easy and simple incubator like the one you use to buy to start my poultry business Please. Will be looking forward to hear from you. Thanks

Hello I was wondering if you have a name or link to the incubator you used? If you do I would be very grateful

What's the brand of your incubator and where did you get it?

Does anybody know how to tell if the hick is still alive in the egg

Ok you mention “lock down”…. So you disconnected the egg motor… what if the eggs collected were from a course of a few days. Will this affect the “lock down” date? I put our 12 eggs in on Oct. 6… so we’re getting close. (Only about 1/2 look fertile, a couple suspect and a couple curious of something possible but behind the other more developing eggs) Yeah first time doing this… my mind is all over. Sorry. Any advice would be helpful 😊

What brand of incubator do you have?

So do they start hatching on day 19 or is it always day 21? Did they all survive after being born ? How long should I leave the baby in the shell before intervening

Yea … that cat is looking for lunch !,,

Where did you buy that at

I have a question. I am incubating eggs and I’m on day 19 and we just had a storm go through our area and the power is out. And now I’m freaking out because temp is dropping inside the incubator fast. What should I do?

I just got rid of my rooster, and I am also trying to hatch eggs from him! I only got 2 weeks left, sadly

How do i know if the rooster fertilized the eggs

Do you ever assist the hatch?

Not all chicks are born with their eggs yolks hanging out. They should absorb while they’re in their shell. Personally I’ve never seen that and I hatch 2 times a year.

When I can give chickens feed? Please

Some people told me I can start feeding after two days? Is that all right?

How's the last one doing now?

So am I just supposed to incubate all of the eggs? We sell eggs, so that kind of sucks

You need a better candler

You need a flash light to be able to see better.....

used pensil not good to used that for marker

You mentioned you got rid of your Roosters, and you want to hatch your own chicks ??? without a rooster ? hmmmmm use a led flashlight, it help, with faster timing for the eggs to be out

be careful cat actual tend to eat the small chick.. 😅😅

Do you wash your eggs first?

Hard to believe there is such a science in doing this and all a Hen does is just sit on them and not much else ! Why do we need to turn them and she doesn't (or does she) ?

The yolk of an egg basically becomes the chick

Just be careful of Cats They eat young one

Are you all watching the same as me? I'm surprised any hatched with the lengh of time she was messing around with them during candling. The lighting around them was way too light anyway too make accurate judgement

Incubators seem all so uncomfortable.

This video was awesome. Would you recommend leaving the chickens in until day 23 regardless of if all are hatched or not. Also what are the needed materials for when you do remove them from the incubator? We’re currently on day 14 and will be candling again tonight to check the eggs. Any and all information would be appreciated.