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# Record a hatch and add your chicks

Open the clutch and select **Record hatch**, then save the totals so far as chicks arrive. When every egg has an outcome, finish the hatch. Your chicks stay together as the brood until you give them profiles or move them to a flock.

The **brood** is the group of chicks from one clutch. Creatures tracks it by head count, so you don't need a profile for every chick on day one.

## Record the hatch as it happens

**Record hatch** becomes the main button on the clutch page once the hatch window opens or you record a pip. You'll also find it on your [Today page](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/your-today-page-whats-due-and-how-to-check-it-off-cff1ap/) and in the **⋯** menu.

1. Enter **Hatched**, and **Of those, assisted** if you helped any chicks out. Assisted chicks count as hatched too.
2. Open **Eggs that did not hatch** and fill in what applies: **Clear eggs pulled**, **Stopped developing**, **Failed after pipping**, **Failed without pipping** or **Broken eggs**.
3. Check the **still incubating** count. It shows how many eggs have no outcome yet.
4. Select **Save hatch progress**.

![Record hatch with 4 hatched, 1 clear egg pulled and 7 still incubating](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/6d2/da1/a28/69166.png?width=1760)

Enter running totals, not just the new chicks. If 4 hatched this morning and 3 more tonight, enter 7 the second time. You can add the **First hatch** and **Last hatch** times under **Times and notes**.

## Finish the hatch

When every egg has hatched or has an outcome, turn on **Hatching is complete**. The button changes to **Complete hatch**. If eggs are still incubating, you'll see "Record the remaining eggs before finishing." Saving with no eggs left incubating also finishes the hatch.

The clutch then shows **Hatched** with your count, for example 9 of 12. **The hatch, in numbers** shows your hatch rate three ways: of the eggs set, of the eggs that were developing, and of the fertile eggs. These read **Provisional** until the hatch is complete. A chick that dies later doesn't change them.

![The hatch, in numbers: 75% of eggs set, 90% of developing and 90% of fertile eggs hatched](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/2d9/e1f/f80/c7529.png?width=1280)

## Add your chicks

The brood panel on the clutch page shows how many chicks hatched, how many are living and how many still need profiles.

![9 chicks hatched, 9 living and 9 without profiles, with Create profiles for chicks and Join a flock](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/e77/405/47a/e0b59.png?width=780)

1. Select **Create profiles for chicks**. The brood's **Animals** tab opens.
2. Under **Promote to individual profiles**, fill in what you know: **Call name**, **Sex**, **Identifier type** (**Band**, **Toe punch**, **Zip tie** or **Other**), **Identifier** and **Hatched on**. A blank name gets a temporary one, such as "Chick 1", until you rename it.
3. Select **Create profile**. To save several chicks at once, choose **Add another profile** first. The button then counts them, such as **Create 3 profiles**.

![First chick profile with Sex Unknown, a Band identifier of Blue 4 and Hatched on Oct 10, 2026](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/85c/efb/7f3/b0aca.png?width=744)

Each profile starts with the species, breed, owner and hatch date from the brood.

## Move the brood

- **Move to the brooder** moves the brood to one of your places. It shows once you have a place set up. See [Move animals and review location history](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/move-animals-and-review-location-history-jevbid/).
- **Join a flock** moves chicks into one of your flocks. Pick **Which flock?**, set **Animals without profiles to move**, and turn on **Move their place with the flock** to move them to the flock's home place. Then select **Join the flock**. The brood keeps its hatch history.

## If something looks wrong

- **A count was wrong after you finished:** choose **Reopen hatch** on the clutch page within 30 days, fix the counts and save again.
- **A chick dies later:** record it with the brood or on the chick's profile. Your hatch numbers stay as they were.

Calves, kids, foals and other live births use [Recording a birth and adding the babies](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/recording-births-and-creating-a-litter-lucvc2/) instead.

### Related information

- [Set a clutch of eggs and follow incubation](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/set-a-clutch-of-eggs-and-follow-incubation-13xozef/)
- [Share a clutch: public page, interest list and hatch card](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/share-a-clutch-public-page-interest-list-and-hatch-card-iswhx5/)
- [Track animals without individual profiles](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/track-animals-without-individual-profiles-nbado5/)