First chick hatched, and question!!

[MereBear]

Hey everybody!

Our first chick just hatched a half an hour ago in our incubator! Yay!! We have nine more eggs in there, one of which has pipped, and a few more are rocking. The chick is still drying off and I'm nervous because she's stumbling all around the inside of the incubator and moving all of the eggs around. Is this going to make it hard for them to hatch?? I stopped turning them on Day 18 so they could get in position, are they going to be out of position now that they have rolled over? What do I do? Thanks for the help!

 

[pogmobum]

Chicks rolling around doesn't do any damage from all the posts that i have read so far on this super duper site!! But people also say that if you are really worried you can take the chick out to fluff up in the brooder under a warm lamp this then risks the humidity dropping and the other chicks drying out. If it were me and i have done this in the past i would just leave it in it shouldn't do any damage unless its totally nuts lol. I had one before that started pecking the other egg aswell but everything was fine hope this helps.

 

[MereBear]

That did help, thank you so much! All except one hatched just fine and are happy, healthy little birds!