Moving just hatched chicks.....

[Mraya]

I have 2 incubators one for hatching one for incubating. The incubating one has a fan and is up and running as I am incubating more eggs. Would it be safe to move the hatched chicks to the hatching tray of my incubating incubator so they can dry faster? I am hatch 34 eggs in my Little Giant and it is getting full of chicks.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Out of curiosity...Why not set up a brooder?

 

[Mraya]

Out of curiosity...Why not set up a brooder?

I have a brooder the chicks have just hatched and are still wet.

 

[sylviethecochin]

I have a brooder the chicks have just hatched and are still wet.

Just my experience, but as a kid, we had a murderous bantam hen. She loved her chicks, but she also thought that their blood was tasty. So when she hatched chicks (as soon as they were out of the shell), we just put them under the heat lamp. Once or twice, we put partially-hatched eggs under the heat lamp too. The only time we ever had one die was when it hatched with the yolk still attached and the others pecked at it. Damp chicks did just fine in the brooder. (and no, they didn't shrink-wrap. Which, looking back, is sort-of odd, but considering how many kids were crowded around watching them hatch, there was probably a little assisted hatching involved.)

 

[Mraya]

Just my experience, but as a kid, we had a murderous bantam hen. She loved her chicks, but she also thought that their blood was tasty. So when she hatched chicks (as soon as they were out of the shell), we just put them under the heat lamp. Once or twice, we put partially-hatched eggs under the heat lamp too. The only time we ever had one die was when it hatched with the yolk still attached and the others pecked at it. Damp chicks did just fine in the brooder. (and no, they didn't shrink-wrap. Which, looking back, is sort-of odd, but considering how many kids were crowded around watching them hatch, there was probably a little assisted hatching involved.)

The problem with that is I have week old chicks in the brooder and don't want these to get pecked at until they are dry (not that I want them to be pecked at when they are dry either,you know what I mean. I'll just set up another brooder with a heat lamp. I use the MPH in the other brooder.

Thanks

 

[aart]

Would it be safe to move the hatched chicks to the hatching tray of my incubating incubator so they can dry faster?

What exactly is this...a large cabinet incubator?

 

[Mraya]

What exactly is this...a large cabinet incubator?

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[aart]

If it's warm enough, then use it....but sounds like you need extra brooders anyway

 

[Mraya]

If it's warm enough, then use it....but sounds like you need extra brooders anyway

I have 3 brooders 4 ft long X 29 inches wide and 18 inches high I just didn't want to put them in the brooders wet.