Congrats on your first chick.
I remember well at the begining of this year hatching my first chicks. I was really stressed, peering in the incubator all the time, it was VERY exciting!!!
I left mine in 24 hours but was worried too that they were thrashing about so much.
Fingers crossed that the rest of them hatch, I had 8 Marans in there and none of them hatched, 6 aracuana and 4 hatched, 6 silkie and 1 hatched and 3 ducks that all hatched!
The Marans and the silkies were sent away for so I got a better hatch rate with 'home grown' eggs!

I remember well at the begining of this year hatching my first chicks. I was really stressed, peering in the incubator all the time, it was VERY exciting!!!
I left mine in 24 hours but was worried too that they were thrashing about so much.
Fingers crossed that the rest of them hatch, I had 8 Marans in there and none of them hatched, 6 aracuana and 4 hatched, 6 silkie and 1 hatched and 3 ducks that all hatched!
The Marans and the silkies were sent away for so I got a better hatch rate with 'home grown' eggs!