My first hatch!

[redinator]

Yes, it’s my first time. The brooder is all ready for them. I am not sure what cancel testing is, could you please explain? Yes, I have all of the things to care for them, and know how to clean pasty butt. Thank you!

I looked up 'cancel testing' and it seems to be a different term for lockdown which is when you stop turning the eggs and leave the eggs alone until they hatch. The term is new to me too, so I could be wrong.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Hi, welcome to the forum! Glad you joined! And congratulations on those chicks. It is a great feeling when they hatch.

I have one question: (S)he is quite active and causing the other eggs to roll around quite a bit, is that alright?

Some people worry about that but I don't. The best I can tell, commercial hatcheries don't worry about it either. Some of them hatch 1,000,000 chicks each week so I figure they know what they are doing.

No matter what you do something can go wrong. One thing I had happen once is that an egg got cupped in a half-shell from a previously hatched chick so the chick in that egg would have had trouble pipping or zipping if it tried that where the shell overlapped. I consider something like that to be such a rare occurrence that it isn't something I worry about. If it happens I deal with it.