Question about hatching.....

[Hoosiermomma]

Thanks for the info!!! I have one baby out and will probably put in a brooder soon and there is a small pip in the other egg(from last night) but haven't seen anything since.

 

[chikmagnet_09]

Congrats! Usually once one is out for some reason more seem to hatch soon after. Do you have any way of taking pictures?

 

[Hoosiermomma]

There's just a few in post #12 but I haven't been able to get any new ones yet. I'll do that once I can get the baby in a brooder box.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

I go to Dollar General and get a large plastic storage container.

I then get a cheap aluminum light with a ceramic socket and the safty bars across the opening (about 6 bucks at walmart)

I get small PINE shavings (NOT CEDAR!!!) from my local feed store.

Put the shavins in the storage bin, put paper towells across the shavings for the first few days, hang the light over the "brooder/container" and get a thermometer and place it at the BOTTOM of the brooder.

Adjust the light so the temperature is around 95 degrees F and better to be cooler than warmer.

MAKE SURE the chicks have a way to avoid the heat source if they feel it too hot so put the light at only one end of the brooder.

Get the chick waterers and put marbles in the dish part.

chicks have an uncanny abilitiy to drown themselves ?!

Put the medicated chick starter on top of the paper towells for the first few days.

The chicks will find the water and the food and you can replace the paper towells every day if you feel it necessary.

This too allows you to look at thier poop for normal appearance.

Change thier water EVERY DAY they get it filthy usually.

This is the worst part for me, the waterer. Some on here have found some pretty ingenious methods to water their little ones.

This should get you going. GOOD LUCK and CONGRATS !!!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

If the one egg has a small pip and has not done anything for hours then it probably is stuck. I would give it at least another 3-4 without doing anything.
Then you have a choice. Help it out or let it go.
I thought it would get stuck if you did open that incubator. It happens to me too.
So then you have to help it or it will die.
I would not wait too long because you have your other eggs getting ready and that same thing will happen to them (stuck) if you open that incubator. The precious humidity that they need exits quickly. Within seconds. I will get a spray bottle and fill with very warm water.
If I have to open the incubator, then I spray it really well with the water, keeping the lid as closed as possible as I am doing it.
Sometimes it helps.
Well, I lost one chick trying to help it out. And saved the other. I am in the process of cleaning the hatcher out for the one that need to go in today.
Good luck