moving after hatcing or after piping

[nizar]

which is the better , is it to move eggs to the hatcher ( brooder) when eggs are pipe or after eggs hatch.

and HOW about putting a towel under the eggs in the incubator , is it good idea or bad.

 

[MuscovyMad]

I alway wait until all the eggs have hatched before i move them to a new environment.

Not sure about the towel. I'm thinking it would lower humidity. Is it to stop the eggs from rolling around when they are hatching? If so, i found that toilet rolls cut into thin rings worked really well for holding eggs in place and preventing them from getting kicked about.

 

[Gypsy07]

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A hatcher and a brooder are two different things. A brooder is where you're going to raise the chicks after they've hatched, and most people prefer to leave them until they've dried off and fluffed up before doing this. A hatcher is just an incubator that you only use for the hatching eggs in their last few days of incubation, and not for the whole incubating process. You'd normally transfer your eggs from the incubator to the hatcher three days before they were due to hatch, and ideally before any of them had pipped.

Hope this helps a bit!