UPDATE: with photo: Is 25 days really max?

[SnowyChickenMomma]

Wow that's a cool setup even looks like the same incubator I have. I wonder if I could make a dry box. My humidity is more around 67-70 do you think I should increase it? 75 is higher than mine lol. I know once they hatch the humidity increases so I thought money would be ok

 

[SnowyChickenMomma]

Update video

 

[SnowyChickenMomma]

Just woke up to my rooster crowing not sure why at 4:30 am and I decided I would go down to check on the babies.... right in time. Seriously if I was a minute late I would have missed it. It was halfway cracked and then BOOM out comes the little babe.

So perfect. I will have to thank Charlie the rooster for that.

Now I am wondering do I take him now to the "drying" area. Or let him dry out in there for an hour first? Also do I put water and food in the drying area I am so not sure what to do.

 

[The Golden Egg5]

Just woke up to my rooster crowing not sure why at 4:30 am and I decided I would go down to check on the babies.... right in time. Seriously if I was a minute late I would have missed it. It was halfway cracked and then BOOM out comes the little babe.

So perfect. I will have to thank Charlie the rooster for that.

Now I am wondering do I take him now to the "drying" area. Or let him dry out in there for an hour first? Also do I put water and food in the drying area I am so not sure what to do.

Congrats! I would leave it in the incubator for the next few hours, and then move it to it’s brooder. Wait until it’s all dry and fluffy to take it out. The chick that hatched will cheep and run around in there and that actually helps to motivate the chicks that haven’t hatched yet. Chicks do not need any food or water for about 24 hours after they hatch. They have just absorbed the yolk before they hatched and that gives them the nourishment they need for the next while. This is because when chicks are hatching under a broody hen, she will not be able to leave the nest until all the eggs have hatched, so the hatched chicks won’t have a chance to eat or drink for a while.

 

[cmom]

The chick will be ok in the incubator. When I do take the chicks out I usually mist the eggs with warm water and that helps to bring up the humidity quicker. When they hatch the humidity will also go up which is ok because it will come back down as the chick dries. I had a hatch this week and another one due Tuesday. I'll put the eggs in the hatchers tomorrow and give the chicks/eggs an extra day in the incubator. Years ago I used my styrofoam incubators to incubate in but now I use them as hatchers. I have a cabinet I incubate in. This styrofoam cooler I made a incubator/hatcher out of works great. I use two 15 watt incandescent bulbs as the heat source. In the original one I made I had one bulb but once during incubation it burnt out sometime during the night so I modified it and put a second light bulb in as well as a wafer thermostat and a fan. I thought I would post some pictures and maybe it will help and give you some ideas. This was the original homemade styrofoam. I originally put a dimmer switch on it to somewhat control the temperature. I had to keep checking it because it did fluctuate quite a bit. If you can hatch in a styrofoam incubator you can hatch in most anything. Good luck and have fun...

The first thing I added was a fan to circulate the heat.

This was after I modified it.

I put a little chick starter on the paper towels. The chicks will peck at it.

 

[SnowyChickenMomma]

The chick will be ok in the incubator. When I do take the chicks out I usually mist the eggs with warm water and that helps to bring up the humidity quicker. When they hatch the humidity will also go up which is ok because it will come back down as the chick dries. I had a hatch this week and another one due Tuesday. I'll put the eggs in the hatchers tomorrow and give the chicks/eggs an extra day in the incubator. Years ago I used my styrofoam incubators to incubate in but now I use them as hatchers. I have a cabinet I incubate in. This styrofoam cooler I made a incubator/hatcher out of works great. I use two 15 watt incandescent bulbs as the heat source. In the original one I made I had one bulb but once during incubation it burnt out sometime during the night so I modified it and put a second light bulb in as well as a wafer thermostat and a fan. I thought I would post some pictures and maybe it will help and give you some ideas. This was the original homemade styrofoam. I originally put a dimmer switch on it to somewhat control the temperature. I had to keep checking it because it did fluctuate quite a bit. If you can hatch in a styrofoam incubator you can hatch in most anything. Good luck and have fun...
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The first thing I added was a fan to circulate the heat.
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I put a little chick starter on the paper towels. The chicks will peck at it.
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Wow,this is so cool! Thanks for sharing I could read about chickens forever. I am becoming obsessed