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How long do chicks stay in a incubator?

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They should be left in the incubator until they are dry,fluffy and active. Do not rush to remove them as opening the incubator will effect the un-hatched and still hatching eggs.

This usually takes up to 36 hours and the first hatch chicks will survive quite well without food or water since the humidity in the incubator keeps them hydrated. After 36 hours all unhatched eggs should be candled to verify viability, and the hatched chicks moved to a brooder box.

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They should remain in the incubator until they are dry and fluffy. There are two reasons for this. Just after hatch they are vulnerable to chill and quick temperature drops. You want to keep the hatchmates together as much as possible in the first few hours. The ducklings will not need nutrition or water for at least 36 hours after hatch anyway so keeping them in the incubator ensures all hatch-lings go into the brooder box at the same time.

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Chicks have to stay in an incubator for 24 hours after they hatch.

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The answer will depend on which creature the eggs are from!

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About 1 to 2 meters

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The chicks should all stay in the incubator until the hatch is complete and the chicks are fluffy and dry. They should all be moved to the brooder box at the same time. The chicks will roll the peeping eggs and that is ok. Sometimes the movement of the completed chicks will get the emerging chicks to begin and that is a good thing. Do not be hasty in removing the newly hatched chicks from the incubator, they can and should remain in there for up to 24 hrs.


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