Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

How long do you leave them in for?

The last hatch I had, I had the brooder plate so I took them out 15 minutes after they hatched and put them in the brooder under the plate. I'm in love with it! So isn't my husband.

I use heat plates too, I used a heat lamp for a very sort period of time and never looked back when I got the heat plates! They're great!
 
70s is fine, the humidity spikes a bit when they first hatch and the moisture on their bodies and in the shell makes it go up. Sometimes they dry off enough to come out but still have little spiky tips to their fluff. Like these peeps, that's dry enough for me to feel comfortable taking them out and putting them in the warm brooder. You just don't want them to get chilled from being wet.

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What adorable chicks. I love little polish chicks. They look so cute with the little poof on the top of their heads. We have preordered some gold laced polish day olds this year. Last year ours ended up being all roosters. We kept one buff laced & will try our luck again this year. 😂
 
You probably will never see them once you put them under the plate 😂 just make sure to file their beaks in the water then put them under the plate. They'll be good.

Mine all go under the plate until they hear me open the door then you see all these cute faces popping out 😂

That is sooo cute. I love when they pop their little heads out to peek.
 
I have a not-so-olive egger that of course we named "Olive" and her eggs range in color from purple/pink to dusty brown and they're HUGE, the largest eggs I've ever gotten consistently from a hen. I made this listing because I was going to rehome her but then she went broody, so I had to keep her since she's my excuse to hatch more babies, lol!

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She is sooo pretty and so are those eggs! See, this is exactly why I’ll probably keep the little babe even if she doesn’t lay olive (if it’s a she😂).
 
What adorable chicks. I love little polish chicks. They look so cute with the little poof on the top of their heads. We have preordered some gold laced polish day olds this year. Last year ours ended up being all roosters. We kept one buff laced & will try our luck again this year. 😂

Good luck! They're great little characters. Polish chickens are divas, lol.
 
Woke up to baby #7. A little F2 Olive egger. It doesn’t have a pea comb so I’m thinkig probably won’t lay Olive. Didn’t expect it to be light colored either! It’s going to be so interesting looking once it’s dry. So now 7/12 are hatched. Plus I have the 3 wild card eggs in there that I wasn’t sure about. We will see what today brings. No pips on any other eggs yet. About to start pulling the dry-ish chicks out. View attachment 2019614View attachment 2019615
So cute!
I have 2 olive eggers with pea combs that lay brown eggs. So you never know what you might get 😂
 
What brand brooder plate are y'all using? I'm not interested in making my own at this time. I've always used heatlamps but might try something different this time 'round.

I got the Titan heat plate because at the time it was just the most affordable one on Amazon but I love the ease of adjusting the height to so many tiny increments, or even tilting the plate where it's lower in the back and higher in the front so they have temperature options. I wouldn't have had that with some of the more expensive ones. I have two of the Titan heat plates now and I used them all year last year, love them!
 

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