First hatching experience!

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Nice job. If your vent holes aren't out already I'd take them out now. Once they all start to zip it will get very humid in there. If humidity spikes over 70% don't be afraid to quickly grab out the first few chicks to brooder. If your trying to maintain 60-65% a quick open now and then to get it back down is fine,
 
Egghead_Jr said:
Nice job. If your vent holes aren't out already I'd take them out now. Once they all start to zip it will get very humid in there. If humidity spikes over 70% don't be afraid to quickly grab out the first few chicks to brooder. If your trying to maintain 60-65% a quick open now and then to get it back down is fine,
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Ok, thankyou! Does it hurt that the first one is making some of the other eggs roll around? She's really active!
 
I don't believe a few chicks moving the eggs a bit hurts anything. Ten chicks in there rolling around eggs may be slightly harmful. Just take them out as they dry or you need to lower humidity again take a few out that are perked up.

A few people with far more hatching under their belts than me have noted slightly better hatch rates if they keep the eggs in cartons rather than laying flat for hatch. The thought was eliminating the soccer kicks to eggs.
 
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Egghead_Jr said:
I don't believe a few chicks moving the eggs a bit hurts anything. Ten chicks in there rolling around eggs may be slightly harmful. Just take them out as they dry or you need to lower humidity again take a few out that are perked up.

A few people with far more hatching under their belts than me have noted slightly better hatch rates if they keep the eggs in cartons rather than laying flat for hatch. The thought was eliminating the soccer kicks to eggs.
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I attribute my poor hatch rate last year to the soccer tournament...of 18 eggs in the bator, all moving on lockdown, only 9 hatched :( ...hindsight: don't hatch on cardboard, don't lay the eggs down without something to protect them from rolling, and I had no idea I could pull babies out in under the 24 hr period... this time I hatched on a non-slip mat, smaller batches, and I used flimsy cupcake papers barely big enough for my banty eggs... and that saved the straggling egg from the others :) of course a batch big enough to completely fill the bator would also prevent the soccer issue ;)

So I agree, you can remove the chicks that are most dried and most mobile so they don't wreak havoc on the eggs! Just get them straight to the brooder under a lamp.
 
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Crisses said:
I attribute my poor hatch rate last year to the soccer tournament...of 18 eggs in the bator, all moving on lockdown, only 9 hatched
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...hindsight: don't hatch on cardboard, don't lay the eggs down without something to protect them from rolling, and I had no idea I could pull babies out in under the 24 hr period... this time I hatched on a non-slip mat, smaller batches, and I used flimsy cupcake papers barely big enough for my banty eggs... and that saved the straggling egg from the others
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of course a batch big enough to completely fill the bator would also prevent the soccer issue
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So I agree, you can remove the chicks that are most dried and most mobile so they don't wreak havoc on the eggs! Just get them straight to the brooder under a lamp.
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I may try something like that next time. I just layed them on the wire rack in there. I have my brooder warming up and am getting there food and water ready.
 

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