eggs are starting to hatch i have a question

[Justin36]

Today at 6pm will be the end of the 20th day I just got home from work and have 6 fully hatched eggs, looks like alot of the others are starting. My question is how long should I wait after the first chicks hatched before opening the incubator? I don't want to kill any unhatched chicks by opening.g to soon and I don't want to leave the first born in there to long either. I know they will all hatch preaty close to each other but I am sure a few eggs wont hatch since I haven't candled in a week and a half and may have lost a few but I don't want to give up on them though. It would be nice if when I wake up in about 7 hours from now they are all hatched and I don't have to worry about it.

 

[mstricer]

Chicks can stay in incubator for up to 3 days. A lot of folks take them out right away. I have not figured out how to do this without killing every unhatched chick by shrink wrapping them. The call is yours. Hopefully they will all be hatched. Good Luck and

 

[Justin36]

One of my incubators has so much condensation on the windows I can't see into it and the other does not, there are chicks in both though, should I pull a plug in the one with condensation or maybe add some water through the hole of the one with dry windows?

 

[madi99]

i would pull out a vent plug in the incubator with the condensation and leave the other alone... if anything the drying chicks will add moisture to the incubator. I had a similar problem not knowing when to take out my chicks seeing as all but 1 had hatched at the end of day 21. As long as none of the other eggs have pipped i think its safe to take out the other chicks... but be as quick as possible just to be sure.

 

[thebanthams]

I dont know what kind of egg incubator you have, but what I did is I wet my towel with hot water, and covered the sides of it, then I was able to pull out the baby chickies. The other eggs hatched fine.