August Hatch along?

[MichelleBelle]

My little boys are getting excited, too. They know it's getting really close to hatch time. Last night before bed, a cricket started chirping really loudly outside (or maybe it was inside it was so loud). My little one jumped up with great excitement and exclaimed, "Mama! One of your chicks is chirping in the incubator!" My hubby and I got quite the laugh out of that My little one was disappointed to learn that it was only a cricket making that noise and not a cute fuzzy chick, lol.

 

[Amiloo928]

My little boys are getting excited, too. They know it's getting really close to hatch time. Last night before bed, a cricket started chirping really loudly outside (or maybe it was inside it was so loud). My little one jumped up with great excitement and exclaimed, "Mama! One of your chicks is chirping in the incubator!" My hubby and I got quite the laugh out of that My little one was disappointed to learn that it was only a cricket making that noise and not a cute fuzzy chick, lol.

That’s so cute! How old are your boys? My five year old girl was enthralled watching one of the babies shed their shell this morning!

 

[Amiloo928]

Should I take the four hatched babies out of the incubator? I don’t want to mess up the temp or humidity, but they are crawling all over the remaining eggs. Two of the eggs I’m not worried about, because the pip is still toward the top and I can see a beak moving in them. One of them though, baby pipped at the wrong end, and that egg has gotten turned over by the others. The hole is facing the floor of the incubator now, and the chick is facing upside down in relation to the pip. Does this matter? I can still see the beak and it appears to be breathing, opening and closing its mouth.

 

[MichelleBelle]

That’s so cute! How old are your boys? My five year old girl was enthralled watching one of the babies shed their shell this morning!

They are 5 and 7, and they are also enthralled when watching eggs hatch. It's almost magical, new life

 

[anvia]

Should I take the four hatched babies out of the incubator? I don’t want to mess up the temp or humidity, but they are crawling all over the remaining eggs. Two of the eggs I’m not worried about, because the pip is still toward the top and I can see a beak moving in them. One of them though, baby pipped at the wrong end, and that egg has gotten turned over by the others. The hole is facing the floor of the incubator now, and the chick is facing upside down in relation to the pip. Does this matter? I can still see the beak and it appears to be breathing, opening and closing its mouth.

It’s a tough call, only you can decide - I tend to pull the hatched chicks out if they are really rowdy & playing football with their siblings, but only if the humididy is nice & high & I like to have a helper and be as quick as I can.
Others may say to leave well alone! All you can do is your best.

 

[MichelleBelle]

Should I take the four hatched babies out of the incubator? I don’t want to mess up the temp or humidity, but they are crawling all over the remaining eggs. Two of the eggs I’m not worried about, because the pip is still toward the top and I can see a beak moving in them. One of them though, baby pipped at the wrong end, and that egg has gotten turned over by the others. The hole is facing the floor of the incubator now, and the chick is facing upside down in relation to the pip. Does this matter? I can still see the beak and it appears to be breathing, opening and closing its mouth.

It's a tough decision. Some say don't touch the incubator until everyone is out, but I tend to pull out the overly rambunctious little ones. I'm afraid they might cause damage to the eggs still not yet hatched, when they knock the others around so. Keep a close eye on your chick that pipped in the wrong end- make sure it can still breath out of the little hole.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I've taken a couple steps that helps put a band-aid on unreliable incubators.
I always called my LG incubators 'embryo executioners' because they don't keep a constant temperature well. They'll run along fine for a few days and then suddenly a temperature spike or dip. I just got fed up when it shot up to 107.1. Just this month it has been over 104 three times and as low as 96. In the past, one had dropped to 87.
My Band-Aids come in the form of a high/low temp alarm and a baby monitor.
The RT8100MAT is a min/max recording two channel thermometer with alarms available from Thermoworks for $22.
https://www.thermoworks.com/RT8100MAT

Right now I'm incubating on the top floor of the house and that room door stays closed because of the cats. I couldn't hear the alarm if I was on the main floor.
Enter the VTech DM111 baby monitor available on line for from $17 to $20. The parent unit sits next to the computer on the main floor - right next to my Incubator Warehouse incubation countdown/up timer. $12.99.
https://www.amazon.com/VTech-DM111-Indicator-Digitized-Transmission/dp/B00JEV5UI8?th=1
The parent unit has a belt clip if you are going to be outside for a while with 1000' range.

http://incubatorwarehouse.com/egg-incubator-timer.html

The alarm is set for a high alarm at 102F and low alarm at 97F. If I set the range any tighter, the alarm would be going off all the time.
Best yet is that with 2 channels, the alarm can be used on 2 incubators or, in my case, I put one sensor in the cabinet incubator and another in the attached hatcher when those are in use.

 

[Amiloo928]

It’s a tough call, only you can decide - I tend to pull the hatched chicks out if they are really rowdy & playing football with their siblings, but only if the humididy is nice & high & I like to have a helper and be as quick as I can.
Others may say to leave well alone! All you can do is your best.

It's a tough decision. Some say don't touch the incubator until everyone is out, but I tend to pull out the overly rambunctious little ones. I'm afraid they might cause damage to the eggs still not yet hatched, when they knock the others around so. Keep a close eye on your chick that pipped in the wrong end- make sure it can still breath out of the little hole.

I had planned on leaving everybody in the bator until they were completely dry since my brooder is open sided. They are quite mobile, but they don’t seem to be damaging the remaining eggs at this point. I’m going to leave them in to dry and encourage the last three babies through hatching, unless I feel the other eggs are in danger of being trampled detrimentally.

 

[Amiloo928]

We now have six out of seven hatched, including the little one who pipped the wrong side of the egg.

 

[MichelleBelle]

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We now have six out of seven hatched, including the little one who pipped the wrong side of the egg.

I think you already mentioned, but are they Ameraucanas? They sure are cute!