my two year old wont leave incubator alone!

[nstilwater]

i am so frustrated, my two year old has made the connection between the eggs and the baby chicks. now he keeps opening it up and asking "Bird?" now my duck eggs have been cold all day off and on.....never below 95.......and im sure the humidity is going up and down.......just hope they hatch i have three eggs in there all alive two days ago. gonna be runner crosses dont know what daddy was either Pekin, Khaki Campbell or Black east Indie.......please tell me the eggs will be ok

 

[NonnasBabies]

You can hope there okay!! Sounds like you need to move the incubator out of his reach!!

 

[cmom]

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[Gypsy07]

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x 100 !!!

You really can't expect a 2 year old to understand enough to leave an incubator alone. At two years most kids' brains just aren't going to be sufficiently developed to be able to comprehend what you'd be asking of them here, so there would be no point in smacking/punishing him in the hopes that he would learn. Not yet. Save that for when he's a bit older.

In the meantime, you really have to re-site your bator. Somewhere he can't reach, and preferably can't see either, that way he'll most likely forget about it after a day or so. Don't forget to make sure the cable is out of reach too...

Good luck with your eggs!

 

[idispatch4911]

I've got twin 4 year olds and I'll be starting my first incubation in a few weeks. I'm curious to see how they will handle it. 4 is way older than 2 and better at following directions, but I'm still nervous!!

 

[georgiagail]

I have been known to raise cut throat finches (who have a tendency to throw chicks out of the nest if disturbed) in a closet to give them privacy.

As previously mentioned, a two year old lacks the ability to understand why they shouldn't open the incubator. Best to keep it away from them.

Gail

 

[peterlund]

Doesn't really sound like a chicken problem at all now does it

 

[Jay262]

They should be fine i have had hatches that the kids lowered the temps and they were ok if it got a few degrees higher you might have been in trouble. You may or may not lose some due to this is hard to say but i am gonna say its unlikely you will. With all this said now go move your incubator so the kids cant touch it i built a shelf well out of reach for mine.

 

[al6517]

Just move it out of reach for both the egg's and childs safety, makes sense to me

 

[Msbear]

welcome to my world

put it in a closet and put a lock on the closet