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I need help identifying our chickens! I know we have roundheads and I believe 2 EEs. Can someone comfirm?

We had 2 eggs hatch out of 9 from the same hen. They hatched 4 days apart. It has been 5 days since the last one hatched. How would I do the candling to check the viability of the other eggs? By the way, we have them in an incubator.

That would scare me!

The little one won't even try to peck back. It just sits there. But their mom is a roundhead and she will fight our other chickens that are roundheads as well.

This page is as interesting as BYC! I'm learning so much!

I just don't understand why the first chick is doing that to the new one. I know he's been on his own for 3 days, but still.... This is our first time hatching. We really don't know anything about incubators. We never messed with it, except to turn the eggs. The temp fluctuates I've noticed...

I was freaking out at first. Lol

I think this one is going to be ok. It doesn't even look like it was ever bleeding. What about my other questions?

That looks a little gross. Lol But I see what you mean. I hate that I missed the hatching. I was present for the last two. The first one died because it struggled for over 48 hours and never got past the pip. I assisted, but it only lived maybe 30 minutes to an hour. The second made the pip and...

There was no yolk on the stomach. I checked for that as soon as I saw it had hatched. I missed the whole thing because I was gone. I looked on the vent and I didn't see anything more that looked like blood. I guess it was from hatching.

What are the vent and the umbilicus? They are in an incubator, but they are from the same hen.

Thank you! I'm still in the learning process!

Hello! From BYC! Had to come here to get some questions answered asap! Can't wait to meet everyone!