baby chicks

[sparks]

I have been raising chickens for 3yrs. now and I finally bought a hova-bator incubator and we now have 6 brand new chicks. 6 out of 11 eggs is not bad.
I bought originally a still-air incubator and I had no results, but this new incubator is a little more expensive and it is a air-flow and wafer heat and with the turning rack . It all worked simply and was well worth the extra monies.

Does anyone else raise chickens?

[Mom2boys]

I don't raise them, but we have incubated them before in the hovabator as a homeschool project. It was easy and the babies are so cute. They learned how to escape from the laundry basket I kept them in very quickly!

[Dandelion]

Sounds fun watching them!
We hatch about 20 a year, but normally by their God-created incubators -with Mum in a small house/box and run, and checking progress usually twice a day! We did one time bring one inside that was later hatching. We put him into the warm/not going oven and held him, before putting him back under Mum.

[sparks]

I sell the eggs to the CCWC co-op produce Dale, so I really need the hens to be putting their time in on laying the eggs.
And I really dont mind hatching the eggs and taking care of the chicks.
I do have a Mama duck sitting on a nest of eggs . They should be hatching at the end of this month.