Brooder

[Bigrooster1]

When is the best time to move baby chicks to the brooder?

 

[Yardmom]

Are you asking when to take them out of the incubator? There are different opinions on this. I take chicks out once a day. I take any chick who is reasonable dry and or moving around a lot about 24 hours after the first hatch or when it's convenient. I repeat the next day and occasionally the next as well. Some fear a humidity drop and don't open for anything until every egg that is going to hatch hatches. Others are concerned that chick rolling eggs could cause problems for chicks still hatching and take out chicks as soon as they start to move around.

 

[Bigrooster1]

Are you asking when to take them out of the incubator? There are different opinions on this. I take chicks out once a day. I take any chick who is reasonable dry and or moving around a lot about 24 hours after the first hatch or when it's convenient. I repeat the next day and occasionally the next as well. Some fear a humidity drop and don't open for anything until every egg that is going to hatch hatches. Others are concerned that chick rolling eggs could cause problems for chicks still hatching and take out chicks as soon as they start to move around.

Yes. 1 hatched in the middle
of the night last night and now I have a couple more pipping. Would it be ok to leave him in there over the night tonight? It would be around 48 hours before I would be able to get him out

 

[Percheron chick]

Leave the hatched one until morning. I seems to help motivate the pipping ones to have one cheering them on.