Hatching is exciting, but can also be very stressful between correct temps and humidity. Watching your chicks start to pip and then another hatched chick jumps around on it, rolls it over and then your piped chick has to readjust itself only to start all over again and sadly some don't make it out because of this, well there is help. Take your hatching chicks on the 18th day put them in an egg flat (pointed end down) and when they start to pip even if there are other chicks already hatched they can't roll it around, so your piping chick has a better chance to hatch. ( make sure you cut dime size holes in the bottom of the egg flat so humidity can get through)
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5/4/2013 09:32:50 pm
I am not sure this is the proper thing to do, but soon after one of my chicks hatch and it starts flinging itself around inside the incubator, I simply remove the newborn and place it in a small brooder with a heat lamp. The chick drys out nicely and all is well. This way, he does not band around the other eggs. Also, the other reason I do this is because the chicks never seem to dry and fluff out inside the incubator. I guess it is because of the high humidity inside the hatching incubator. So far, this method has worked well. I have lost no chicks. Everyone seems happy.
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