Opening the incubator during hatching

[plumcreek]

Is the only reason not to open the incubator during hatching the loss of humidity? My incubator is around 60%, my house says it is at 70%, and the weather says it is 96% in the area because it is raining. Do I need to worry about humidity escaping? One chick is bowling with his siblings and I would like to grab him out of there.

 

[nanaluvsgps]

Yea you can quickly grab him out with no worries. I opened my incubator after every egg hatched to get the baby chook out. If your worried about a loss of humidity then just spray some lukewarm mist in the bator. Also huge temperature flucuations isn't good for the eggs either.

 

[esoaksranch]

Yea, we have always opened our bator to grab the chicks. Quick and clean and no worries. Humidity don't drop that much if any for us.