lockdown, egg kicked

[lian]

hi, i am new here. i have question. i have chick that already hatched, then if it kick egg that already has small crack, so the crack become under the egg, will the egg hatch just fine? or should i flip it?

this is not first time i hatch egg, i usually flip it. but always need to check my incubator give me anxiety. (and.. sorry for my bad english)..

 

[kattabelly]

Your English is fine, I can understand you easily

It's ok for eggs to be kicked about a bit by chicks that have already hatched. If it's happening a lot, and you're worried about an egg being turned so the little hole a chick has made is on the bottom, you could put something inside the incubator to make it more difficult for the egg to roll. Or something to keep hatched chicks separate from eggs. I've seen people use things like thin coils of rope to stop eggs rolling so much, and I've sometimes used old egg boxes or spare bits of card or plastic to make a little wall in an incubator.

It's also ok to open the incubator to take chicks out once they've hatched and fluffed up a bit. Just make sure you close the incubator quickly after, so it doesn't get very dry inside. But not so quickly that you rush and hurt a chick or egg! If you do this you might want to wait until two or more chicks have hatched, so you don't have one chick feeling lonely in a brooder.

 

[lian]

Your English is fine, I can understand you easily

It's ok for eggs to be kicked about a bit by chicks that have already hatched. If it's happening a lot, and you're worried about an egg being turned so the little hole a chick has made is on the bottom, you could put something inside the incubator to make it more difficult for the egg to roll. Or something to keep hatched chicks separate from eggs. I've seen people use things like thin coils of rope to stop eggs rolling so much, and I've sometimes used old egg boxes or spare bits of card or plastic to make a little wall in an incubator.

It's also ok to open the incubator to take chicks out once they've hatched and fluffed up a bit. Just make sure you close the incubator quickly after, so it doesn't get very dry inside. But not so quickly that you rush and hurt a chick or egg! If you do this you might want to wait until two or more chicks have hatched, so you don't have one chick feeling lonely in a brooder.

8/13 already hatched. i tried to put card to separate them. but they keep coming. so i just remove the card again. i think i will leave them like that and see what happen tomorrow, for future reference.
thanks btw.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Apparently you’ve never hatch quail, it is a regular soccer match!

 

[Debbie292d]

Good advice from @kattabelly as I'd have given similar.

It is sometimes a bit discerning to watch them roll other pipped eggs around, but I try to just walk away and get myself a bowl of ice cream or something. They always manage somehow.

 

[kattabelly]

Good advice from @kattabelly as I'd have given similar.

It is sometimes a bit discerning to watch them roll other pipped eggs around, but I try to just walk away and get myself a bowl of ice cream or something. They always manage somehow.

I'm always more bothered by the way they lurch around looking for their mum until they're so exhausted that they fall asleep and faceplant hard Not suggesting this is the best thing for anyone else to do, but I take them out of the incubator as soon as they've hatched now and let them fluff up inside a cloth "burrito" tucked into the neck of my top. Feeling the physical contact and a heartbeat calms them right down.