I ended up with 15 out of 16 eggs hatching. Pretty good I would say. One little chick had something wrong and never could get up on its feet the first 24 hours. This morning it was up walking around in the incubator. I took it over and showed it how to drink (you dip their beaks in the water) and put it under the light with the other chicks. It's not 100 percent yet but just the fact it is still alive is progress.
Little newborn chicks are kinda ugly aren't they?
But in only a few hours sitting in the warm incubator they look like the fluffy little chicks we are use to seeing.
As the chicks become dry I moved them into the little box that had water and feed in it and a heat light keeping them the same temp as was in the incubator. I dipped each one of
their beaks in the water so they would know how to drink. They catch on fast as you can see!
So as the day went on I would have eggs in various stages of hatching. But finally, all had hatched out except one and all were the little fluffy chicks that we see and expect baby chicks to look like. What an exciting day this has been and what a miraculous process to get to observe.
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