I absolutely love when you get very scientific. You explain it so clearly, and it highlights how precisely God programmed everything. Brilliant. It must be nerve racking brooding chicks in an incubator. I just let the hen do it and so I didn't have to try and get it right. I just dealt with the results. Fantastic video representation.
Thank you. The more I learn about chickens the more amazing I find them. It is nerve wracking incubating, but I do love watching the process. And I think it was just as worrying wondering how Kiko would get on. But she has been wonderful 🙂
@@chickensinmygarden They are truly amazing indeed! I went to family center to get some feed and treats and they had the troughs of chicks in the rows. There was a whole bin of my beloved silver laced wyandottes under a heat lamp happily trampling their bedding, food, and water. The peeps were music to my ears. I wanted so much to bring them home. I thought of you! If you lived next door to help me I would have! So glad Kiko is perhaps following in Gonzo's footsteps. Another beautiful hen. ❤
I have read about those stores that sell bulk numbers of baby chicks. It must be an amazing sight. It's probably just as well we don't have them here 😀
I had never seen them before. It pained me a little to think what happens to those that don't sell. We know how fast they grow. Sadly, once the tv box tells people they need their own chickens they obey. I wanted to rescue them all.
I love to watch this process. My Silkie hens have hatched Lavender Orpintons and laced bantam Brahmas and I loved listening for pipping and seeing them unzip their shells. Your explanations are always so easy to understand. ❤ From Texas ☺️
What an amazing film. So much knowledge, so beautifully explained. I've hatched eggs under a broody and never, ever could have imagined that so much was going on. Thank you for sharing, from the U.K.
What a nice and informative Video 👍👍👍 Even I'm well informed about the hatching I learned a lot from your video. Have a nice Easter hollyday🥚 🐣🐤🐇 All the best from Germany yours Peter 🐓
Breeding your own chicks with a broody or in an incubator is so exciting. We have done both and it is a marvelous process. We always enjoy for your videos... Greetings from Cusco, Peru.
This was helpful for general hatching information. I had a budgie that was a couple days late hatching. It had pipped internally, but not externally. I noticed that the chick wasn't making any noise after a while. And I thought it dead. So I decided to see what had gone wrong. I removed some shell at the air pocket of the egg, to reveal a heavily gasping chick beak near the middle of the top of the air pocket. This is the type of gasping that living things do when they are dying. And its face was somewhat shrink wrapped. I gently pushed the membrane away, and I could tell that it was in a super weird position. I was able to slowly help it free of the egg. But where the belly is usually buldging from absorbing the yolk sack, the belly buldge was half the normal size. It had clearly used up far too much of its energy stores attempting to hatch. The chick didn't make it. It was just too weak from struggling to hatch. It can be hard to know the right time to intervene.
Oh that's so sad! Yes indeed it is very difficult to know when or if to intervene. Certainly there are times when I have done so with success but also times when I might have done more harm than good and at least one occasion when I know I caused the death of that chick - a lesson learned the hard way. It surely is amazing how many chicks make it, considering what they have to achieve. I hope you have others to brighten your day
I have researched probably 20 hours over the last week trying to find out what a buff orpington roo and blue copper marans hens chicks would look like and I can't find any info. If anyone has an idea how they would look, I would appreciate the information! 😎
I love the timing that you put this out. Today is day 19 for my first time incubating. The chicks that I hatched with a hen are now 14 days old. But two of those hatched on day 20. Is it common for chicks to be early? I hope none hatch tomorrow as I'll be gone most of the day and I don't want to miss what chicks hatch from what eggs. I have them all numbered.
It's not common for chicks to hatch early but - there's always those renegade chickens that don't read the instructions! 😀 If you later breed from these chicks you might find that their eggs hatch early too. Certainly it happens the other way round - late hatching chicks tend to have late hatching offspring. If you have an incubator with automatic humidity control AND there are no eggs with external pips, you might be able to open the incubator and quickly add little fences between the eggs so that each chick stays with its shell until you can see them.
@@chickensinmygarden It's too bad that because they were with a hen I don't know which babies hatched on what birthday or out of what egg. They were due March 24 but the hatch was a night so two are from March 23 and the others the 24 and I'll never know. I got two roosters and 3 hens and how I wish I knew which rooster hatched from the darker egg. :( Oh thank you for the idea. I have to add the water. I have the nurture right 360. You can see my incubator and chicks on my channel. That's interesting that they pass on if they are late or early ha ha.
if a wild duck stepped on a duck and then I separated it from it....after a month and a few days if it lays eggs, is it still possible to be fertilized?
It's possible but ... Firstly it depends on the breed of the wild duck. In general a wild mallard can mate with a domestic duck but not a wild muscovy duck. Secondly although the female duck can store sperm for later use just like a female chicken (see my video about roosters for that) "a month and a few days" is rather a long time. So - yes it's "possible" but very unlikely. Here's a link to the video about roosters ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vFaC7F9MqK4.html
Hi again. I hope you can help me. I am having trouble with my hatch I think. Two of my babies hatched. One had a difficult hatch at the end of the 21st day. The second hatched last night on 22 just after midnight. I had set all eggs at 1pm 21 days ago. After the first chick hatched around 7pm three other eggs pipped. But then the chicks kicked all the eggs around and threw shells all over the incubator. I could not sleep they were so loud. So I know you're not supposed to open but I was worried the other eggs would be damaged. I quickly got the chicks out into the brooder and put the other eggs back how they were. They were making peeps loudly at night. I thought this morning they'd have hatched. It's 8am here. They still only have the pips no zipping. One even started a second pip under the first. Should I assist?
I'm sorry, it's been night time here and I've been asleep. It's been hours since you posted this and you must have been worried. I imagine that by now either some of the chicks have been making progress or hatched, or you have decided to do something. It is possible and sometimes helpful to help a chick to hatch but only if all the yolk has been absorbed and the blood vessels around the shell have dried up. And unfortunately you can't see inside the shell to know what the chick is up to. Quite often the chick is not going to make it no matter what we do. But some chicks can take more than a day longer than others. I hope the most worrying part is over for you now and you have some adorable wee chicks.
@@chickensinmygarden It's ok. I know you're in New Zealand. I did intervene and I'm glad I did because the chick was stuck and weak and wasn't making it out. All turned out well and everything hatched. I have three eggs that I'm leaving in the incubator just in case but they look like they dissolved at some point so I don't think they'll ever hatch. I got 5 silver barnevelders and 3 Swedish flower hens. It will be fun to watch them grow now.
Very precious and informative, thank you! Love to share your videos with my granddaughters. Could you talk about the color of combs? It seems my hens combs vary on how red their combs are. I get nervous when they aren’t bright red. My hen that got sick and died had a comb that became gray. Also could you address how you euthanize a sick bird so it does not suffer?
Thank you. Yes one day I'll do a video about comb colour, but as a quick answer you can think about a bright red comb like a healthy pink glow to a child's cheeks - a sign of blooming good health. Her comb is usually off colour when she is unwell, but also gets pale when she's under any other physical strain such as going through a moult or brooding chicks. A blueish tinge means she's not getting enough oxygen, perhaps from a lung or heart problem. Whenever I have to euthanise a chicken I use the broomstick method - it's quick and foolproof if you use plenty of force. I think the main thing to bear in mind is to carry through whatever you decide. For example if you pull too hard and pull the head off, the chicken still died quickly, but if you don't pull hard enough you have a live injured chicken in great pain. Also don't fret about the after-death flapping and spasms - they are alarming but not an indication that the chicken is alive, rather that the chicken is dead. Here's a link with some details that might be useful. thisnzlife.co.nz/how-to-humanely-kill-a-chicken-four-techniques/
I've just started to watch your videos. I have ten precious eggs to hatch. Your videos make me feel like I can safely do it, and understand what happens.
I always have a few that are fully developed that just dont pip at all, (10% or more sometimes ☹) I make sure that the humidity is optimised throughout the entire 21 days. It is extremely rare that I get 100% hatch..., even though they have fully developed. I am at a loss to understand why. I hardly ever loose a chick once its hatched.
I think that's normal. In 65 hatches I have only once had 100% hatch. And usually they are fully developed with some or all of the yolk absorbed. I figure they just couldn't make it. When I realise what each chick has to achieve to hatch, I'm more amazed that any of them actually do! Even that first step of internal pipping depends on a lack of oxygen making them jerk and pip before they suffocate.
I just love your videos! ❤ One of our hens just hatched a baby chick and raised her. Baby is doing great. But sadly, tonight momma seems to have abandoned the 5 week old baby. Momma went to the top perch bar with her flock mates and left baby alone on the lower bar. I came and found one of the adults picking on the baby. I’m hoping they go easy on baby, I hate to separate her since she seems to be integrated fairly well overall.
Aww, poor sweet baby. At 5 weeks old she will be nearly fully fledged so if the nights are not cold where you are she'll be fine. (You see I'm being optimistic that the chick is a girl!) 🙂
