April 2020 Hatch-A-Long! All are welcome!

[CindyinSD]

That is a good point. But they will be in our living room for the first few days ... I will keep an eye on them, or just use newspaper.
Thanks

Newspaper is slippery for new babies. paper towels or puppy pads are preferable if you don't like pine chips. I've also used equine bedding.

 

[Mablethechicken]

How long is too long after a first pip with no additional progress before you should have cause to worry?

 

[Mablethechicken]

Thank you!


If it's vocalizing, that means it's breathing air, which means that it has pipped internally. They can't cheep until they start breathing air.


Being upright won't make it too difficult to hatch. They'll need to work for it more than the others, but they can manage. All of my eggs hatched upright in cartons and made it out okay. If it's been too long since the chick pipped internally and you're worried about it suffocating, you can give it a safety hole in the air cell.

What’s “too long” in your opinion after the internal pip before a safety hole might be necessary?

 

[K0k0shka]

What’s “too long” in your opinion after the internal pip before a safety hole might be necessary?

If it's been more than 24 hours since it pipped internally, it may need help. But it's hard to know when it pipped exactly. If you are worried, you can give it a small safety hole just in case. Here's a very helpful article on assisting, and it has details on safety holes:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

 

[Mablethechicken]

If it's been more than 24 hours since it pipped internally, it may need help. But it's hard to know when it pipped exactly. If you are worried, you can give it a small safety hole just in case. Here's a very helpful article on assisting, and it has details on safety holes:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

Thank you!!!

 

[K0k0shka]

Thank you!!!

Good luck!

 

[Fatimetta]

Is it okay to shut the incubator off at Day 25 for chicks? The one hasn’t grown since Day 14 and i didn’t see any movement... the other one is hard to tell but the egg isn’t filled out. It looks like the day 14 egg.

 

[CindyinSD]

Is it okay to shut the incubator off at Day 25 for chicks? The one hasn’t grown since Day 14 and i didn’t see any movement... the other one is hard to tell but the egg isn’t filled out. It looks like the day 14 egg.

Time to clean up the bator. Before something explodes...

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Is it okay to shut the incubator off at Day 25 for chicks? The one hasn’t grown since Day 14 and i didn’t see any movement... the other one is hard to tell but the egg isn’t filled out. It looks like the day 14 egg.

If it still looks like day 14 development on day 25, then yes, I would toss those two.

 

[Minky]

I just take out the turner & turner arm, add water if needed, put the eggs back in and wait--and wait---and wait... They lie on their sides. You're (I've heard here) supposed to hatch them in the same position that you incubated them. Some people like to place them in an egg carton, air cell up.

But mine have been upright in an egg turner for the past 18 days so would an egg carton hatch be better?

and what is everyones thoughts on pulling out chicks as they hatch, with a quick open close? I'd like to Mose them to the brooder- I have 40 chicks coming- its going to be busy! humidity is not a problem here in Ontario..my bator has been bone dry and still been on 48% humidity the whole time.
Does anyone do this? Put new chicks in brooder to warm up and dry out?