Should i move chicks during lockdown to prevent the risk of them breaking others?

[penkwolf]

Hello

During my last incubation we set 18 eggs. Once lockdown came about there was 14 left fertile.

The first one hatched and we watched it dry off and liven up etc... but then it started to walk all over the other eggs. At this point we put in a peice of carboard into the incubator to seperate the chick from the eggs. We then thought we should not open it during lockdown so for the next chick we will leave it. The next chick when moving around then cracked an egg. After 12 hours of this crack not changing we moved the chick to the carboard section.

Only 5 hatched in the end.

Was this because we moved them? Or because the chicks unsettled the other eggs?

What do you normaly do?

Thanks

 

[LaynaDon95]

I don't think the poor hatch rate was because of you, or the chicks. My chicks climb all over the other eggs in the incubator, and I open the incubator much more than other people say I should and I usually have very good hatch rates. It must have been from something else.

What kind of incubator do you have?

 

[LaynaDon95]

And did the cracked egg have a chick in it? It must have had a very thin shell.