Go ahead and get your hatched chicks into the brooder. Don't worry about the others yet, it can take 24 hours between pip and zip. Sometimes it takes a bit longer. The ones that are rocking are getting into position before they pip.
Yeah, I think the babies are just adorable! They’re even tinier than I had imagined. One of them is super duper tiny but has a lot of get up and go.
Now I just have to wait and see! It’s Day 18 today, still more time for the others I hope!
looks like you got a dead one in the lower right corner.
Haha, I left it in the crop because it looked cute playing dead.looks like you got a dead one in the lower right corner.
look! legs and a yeller!
Leave me alone, I'm sunbathing, he says.
It seems they hatched a bit early, so you were probably running just a bit warm. There may be cooler spots, some might be slower, you may get a few more today and even tomorrow. As you get to know your bator, you can dial in more precisely from experience, but you may have a wider spread when your just getting used to it. Last hatch all mine hatched day 18-19, I pulled out the shells, eggs that didn’t pop,etc, and had a tray that I had set a week later so it was still in the bator running, humidity back down. on day 22 I hear peeping! An egg had rolled into a back corner and I hadn’t noticed, and it hatched 4 days late! Normally I candle, then open eggs to make sure I’m not tossing eggs with live chicks, but I’m short and it was far back and I missed it. It was late because it was albino and it died on the 3rd day due to what I assume were internal issues, so it was a collection of odd events, but you never know.
