Re: incubator hatched chickens

In article <Xns96D95F45BFD57danny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
diddy <diddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok I have 4 eggs peeping and wobbling. One hatched this morning. It's been
> hatched for about an hour and a half, and it's not holding it's head up
> yet. It's motoring and flopping around the hatcher, peeing like mad, but
> not able to get it'self upright. Is this normal? The other eggs are
> wobbling and peeping, but no sign of the shell breaking yet. They were due
> to hatch yesterday.
> Is this a bad sign?

Patience... You can do more harm than good sometimes trying to "help"
too much.

The chick that is flopping around is normal.
I leave them in the incubator for up to 24 hours, but I have a cabinet
type and put a small cardboard box in there with paper toweling.

Is yours the one with the screen bottom so the chick will have good
footing? If so, just leave it be. :-) It takes them a day or two to
recover their strength.

Hatching is hard work!

Cheers!
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