If I run into to one more stressful problem, I'm gonna give these chicks away.

[Thebossbaby]

GUYS, I wanna shoot this freaking incubator. Why ant I just have a normal hatch? It's day 19 and 11 have hatched. I took the first To out since they were the only ones and they were fluffy this morning. Now there are 9 in this incubator. They just won't dry, and the humidity is liek 80 cause these darn things keep hatching. So I have blowdried the inside plenty of times so the temp is but the humidity drops. ( don't worry none had piped at the time). The humidity won't stop going back up!!!! How the heck do I dry these poor little birds when I'm doing evrything with and against the rules to get the humidity down? I have even wiped the top off with a paper work, removing all excess water held on top. What do I do?

 

[cmom]

Don't worry. It appears your temperature may have been a little high.

 

[Sara L]

If you have your brooder set up and the chicks have been in the incubator for a few hours and are not drying, you could take them out of the incubator and put in the brooder, just keep an eye on them to make sure they start drying and don't get chilled. The humidity probably is staying too high inside the incubator because the wet chicks are keeping the air moist, which is preventing them from drying out.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

open the vents on your incubator then have a cop of coffee or a cocktail or two and chill. Your humidity is not too high at this stage but chickens hatching on the 19th day is not normal and may mean that you have more serous problems in front of you.

 

[tjb]

for some reason, I always have at least one or two chicks hatch at 19 days then the rest right on time. All healthy, happy chicks... I leave my chicks in at least 4 hours {or overnight if night hatch} and then move to my brooder to completely dry and fluff.

 

[cmom]

 

[PouleChick]

I've had lots of chicks (particularly smaller breeds) hatch on day 19 or at least start. I think it is a bantam thing but also heat can put them ahead.