Summery of Hatch

Started with 24 Eggs

1 was not fertile

1 stopped growing after about a week.

22 eggs remained.

1 egg pipped at the wrong end and this normally means the chick will not survive.

2 chicks hatched too early, with blood and yolk not yet absorbed.

3 Eggs including the one that pipped at the wrong end needed help hatching.

   All 22 chicks hatched and are doing well!

 

We put them in this for just a moment so we could change out the towel in the brooder box to a clean one. Going to need to find something else next to put them in next time we change the towel though, just so many of them.

Many different kinds of chicks and honestly we are not sure what is what when it comes to breed. They are all adorable though!

This has been our best hatching year even though we didn’t turn the eggs a few days, and the incubator ran dry for at least a day. Some of the eggs where very porous and we had been told not to expect much from them and they hatched just fine!

The children love this project each year that we do it. We are so thankful to Brenda K. Creighton and her farm, The Offutt Ridge Farm for letting us do this project these last three years and being so patient with us.

These little chicks will go back to that farm in a week or two to live their lives free range and happy with many other chickens and ducks and horses and much more.