How FUN and what a joy to see the egg hatch! This spring is our first egg hatching experience as well! We have a hen who has been setting on 12 eggs since Easter. We set up a surveillance camera in the coup to see her activity.You should see us sitting around watching the hen on the TV! We now have 7 baby chicks, one egg was bad, one chick didn’t make it out of the shell, and 3 have yet hatch (not sure if they will). It is so fun to see her mothering them!

We also have 12 eggs we got from a neighbor in an incubator due to hatch this weekend. We hope to see what you have just posted! So, from your pictures we know what to expect (we couldn’t see what was going on under the hen )!

Thanks so much! Just found your blog and can’t wait to see what else you have shared and will continue to share!

Very cool! It’s so neat to see, I know the kids enjoyed it!

Wonderful, Kendra! I hope to do this someday so my girls can get a glimpse of the complete cycle. I guess I’ll have to get a rooster!

Congrats! If the chicks aren’t causing too much trouble leave them in. Supposedly the cheeping chick helps “call” the other ones and they get more motivated to hatch Woohoo!! I want new babies! Ours are already so big!

Fascinating! What great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

We hatched some recently, and I even got video and posted it! My boys LOVED that… It is amazing how they peck around the whole egg then it almost pops off! I have (in our 2 times of incubating eggs) taken the babies out after about 30 minutes, because they get a bit wild and knock around all the other eggs. I haven’t eve had a problem with this, and none have died because of getting too cold. We would just put them in a small box with a heat lamp close to them (So the temp is about 95-ish under the lamp), and they have thrived very well! So don’t be afraid to take them out.

And I wish that more mother hens were “broody” and would hatch their own! That would be so much less work for us who have incubators but have to turn the eggs a few times daily!