first hatch!!

[Firecracker]

woo hoo!! first chick just hatch. He is bumping into and rolling all of the other eggs. Is this okay????

 

[retiredwithchicks]

Oh yea, they bowl a lot while others are hatching. Good luck!

 

[CCourson05]

Yup. It will even make the other eggs start to hatch as well... Congrats!!!

 

[bburn]

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It is what they do. My only concern is when they are bumping all over an egg zipping. If that happens and the chick has been in there a while I go ahead and move it to the brooder that is heated up and ready. Sometimes I reach my hand in and move the chick that is out to the other side of the incubator. Quickly.

 

[Jacobnlynn]

When I used to use too much humidity in incubation the act of a hatched chick rolling the other eggs frequently killed a good number of the other chicks. Ones that had pipped that rolled hole down would just have liquid dripping out and cover the chicks beak.

If you didn't have too high of humidity you should be fine.

 

[Balbinka]

When mine began rolling around, I put sponge bits as "bumpers" between the eggs so they did not damage each other.