Miracle in the Incubator: How 7 Chicks Emerged from Just 12 Eggs Against All Odds!
We’ve got four black chicks, two tan Rhode Island Red chicks, and a yellow chick that is bigger than all the others. They will be spending the next few weeks in their brooder box before they’ll be big enough to place in a portable chicken coop we have coming from Amazon. And, later, they will join the three remaining chickens we have from our original flock of seven.
This experience was nothing like what I expected, and came with a lot of challenges. But, we handled each issue as it came, and managed to make it through. We hatched seven of the 12 eggs we incubated. Two eggs turned out to be unfertilized. That left only three that developed, and still haven’t hatched. Yesterday (Tuesday) was the official due date. We are going to give these last three a couple of days to see if they are late arrivals before we declare them failures. The next hurdle we face is seeing if any of these birds is male who can replace Randy as the head of the flock.
