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Top 6 Tips for Hatching Chicks Naturally
1).You can't force a hen to go broody. The broody trait is something that hens either have, or they don't. If you are very committed to raising chicks naturally, you will want to select a breed like Buff Orpingtons that have a high level of broodiness naturally. Still, not every Buff Orpington will go broody. You'll want to wait until one of your hens goes broody naturally - she will sit all day on the nest in a trance-like state, and hiss, growl and/or peck at you if you try to remove her. She will only get off once a day to eat, poop and drink. She'll be all fluffed up and flattened out over the eggs.
2).You do need a rooster to hatch chicks naturally. An unfertilized egg will never hatch. So, you'll need at least one rooster per twenty hens to get a good amount of fertilized eggs for your broody to hatch.
3).With natural hatching, failure is to be expected. Not all clutches will hatch, and even when a broody hen goes the distance and sits on the eggs for 21 days, not all eggs will hatch into viable chicks. Expect some to die emerging from the egg, or before - you may have eggs that simply don't hatch, ever. After four days or so from the first chick, you can remove those eggs, or candle them to see what's inside.
4).Don't bother your broody. Once she's all set up in a broody box, you don't want to mess with her too much. She needs to feel safe and protected, so she won't abandon her chicks due to stress. You don't need to pull the eggs out from under her and check them or anything. She knows what to do, and the more you leave her alone, the better. You can put a feeder and waterer near her, but not so close that she'll knock it into her eggs.
5).If you do need to move her or the babies, do it in the evening or at night when she is sleepy. Mother hens are fierce defenders of their eggs and chicks, and she will peck you - sometimes quite hard.
6).Don't breed mixed-breed hens. You can take two purebred chickens and allow them to interbreed, but if you already have mixed-breed hens and roosters, the results of your hatch can be very unpredictable and possibly unviable. Stick with one pure breed if you want to have a hatchery; keep different breeds of chickens completely separate.
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