Eeep! I'm freaking out! Chick getting burned by heat element? LG.

[roche477]

I have 1 that just hatched. I'm going to do the same thing, but putting in my homemade brooder.

 

[emvickrey]

I have my old bator that I plan to use for the hatchlings. I am going to put a screen where they can't get to the element. My first hatch I had some that got singed fluff. Poor things. I don't see how those that say to leave them in ther no matter what for the first 3 days. I'm going to do the transfer this time. So far I have managed to stay out of the bator. ONly open it when absolutely neccessary. I'm hoping for a much better hatch. I think I was the problem before. I kept opening the bator and messing with the eggs. Not this time.

 

[walkswithdog]

ME getting singed on that thing one too many times was what made me build my own bator - that and exactly this. With the low ceiling and cartons - chicks can get singed. Ugh.

Even though my first homemade bator was small it was deep and wide enough I never ever got burned.

 

[roche477]

Got mine moved to the brooder too! I'm using LG and didn't want mine getting singed.

 

[Puddle Foot Farm]

I just moved a second one that randomly popped out of an egg. It was in the corner and it was a BIG chick, so I just bit the bullet and moved it. Now it's in the brooder with the other chick, drying and resting and happy.

I've gotten a serious burn from the LG. It was paaaainful. I'm not letting the chicks go through it.

 

[roche477]

Just put my 2nd one in the brooder.