Chicks in a brooder?

[77horses]

Hi. Sorry about the double post, but i put the other post in the wrong forum and i don't know how to move it to this one!

anyways, I am trying to hatch two chicken eggs that our red star hens laid in my homemade bator. It is working well! The temp. is quite steady(around 98-101 degrees F.) and the eggs are on day #5.
When they hatch, do I leave them in the bator until they are dry and standing, and then replace the bator for a plastic bin with water/food and a light? This is my first time hatching chicks!

Please give any good advise! Thanks!

 

[keljonma]

do I leave them in the bator until they are dry and standing, and then replace the bator for a plastic bin with water/food and a light? This is my first time hatching chicks!

I don't use an incubator, I use a mama hen. But I believe this is pretty much the standard thing to do.​

 

[77horses]

ok thank you!

 

[DuckLady]

duplicate

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=86440