Help!! Chick is hatching 3 days before lockdown! Humidity low and turner still in!

If the principal has the means of brooding the chick at her house -- or taking it to your house for you to do so -- that would be perfect. If not, the chick will likely survive a couple of days in the incubator, and that may be a safer solution than putting her unattended in a brooder for a couple of days. My main concern with leaving her unattended in a brooder is if there is a problem with the heat source -- either being too hot, or too cold, or failing altogether.
 
If the principal has the means of brooding the chick at her house -- or taking it to your house for you to do so -- that would be perfect. If not, the chick will likely survive a couple of days in the incubator, and that may be a safer solution than putting her unattended in a brooder for a couple of days. My main concern with leaving her unattended in a brooder is if there is a problem with the heat source -- either being too hot, or too cold, or failing altogether.
When would she move the chick to her house? Tomorrow?
 
Tomorrow would be fine, as long as the principal is comfortable with brooding a chick. Otherwise, leave it in the bator, and remove it to the brooder as soon as is feasible to do so in a supervised setting. The yolk provides a chick with enough nutrition for up to 3 days. You are cutting that close if you leave it to Monday, but if it is otherwise healthy, it should still be OK. If the chick ends up remaining in the brooder until Monday morning immediately give the chick water with Nutri-Drench (it's a poultry supplement found at most feed stores) and make sure there is chick feed in there.
 
I wasn't able to get it out of the incubator until this morning after all.
I dipped its beak in sugar water right away, but it isn't eating or drinking on its own and it's chirping like crazy.
What should I do?
 
This is what I do, I have a brooder I put the chicks in and for the first couple of days I put some paper towels down in it and sprinkle a little bit of the chick crumbles on it. The chicks are usually inquisitive enough where they peck at the crumbles and discover it's something to eat. They're resting, hatching is hard work.
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This is what I do, I have a brooder I put the chicks in and for the first couple of days I put some paper towels down in it and sprinkle a little bit of the chick crumbles on it. The chicks are usually inquisitive enough where they peck at the crumbles and discover it's something to eat. They're resting, hatching is hard work.View attachment 1387504View attachment 1387507
Thanks!
That's what I do too. I sprinkle it on the paper towel.
It is huddled under the light and laying under it. Is there a way to make it warmer? My light doesn't get any warmer :(
None of the others have hatched yet :/ This one was really early (I think it was under a broody before going in the incubator and I didn't realize)...so the other ones aren't on day 21 until Wednesday.
I'm starting to get worried because I don't see any rocking or rolling or hear any noise from the other eggs. I'm worried that the hatched chick's poop in the incubator will kill the other eggs :'(
 
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