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Not sure why I do this to myself! My second try hatching. I’m using a less than great incubator from a friend (never again). I had an early hatcher and went to candle my eggs before lockdown, and low and behold a Pip. Now my humidity is a wreck and had to assist this one as the membrane was hard...

I assisted this little one with it’s hatch 36 hours after it’s external pip. It had made no progress in 12 hours. It is now back in the incubator but has a protrusion from its bum area. I’m sure this isn’t a great thing, no matter what it is and could have been the reason it couldn’t hatch by...

Quite certain the answer is wait, but how long should you allow a chick to struggle to unzip? Noticed external pip last night, tonight the hole is bigger and can see chick inside. It’s peeping, breathing and doing lots of wiggling but is making slow-no progress and now it’s bed time. Do I leave...

I have an egg pipping before I even put my eggs on lockdown and jacked the humidity. It’s only been running on 35% and was due to go on lockdown tonight. The sack does not look good to me. This is my first ever pip! If you saw my post earlier this week, I opened my incubator on my two first eggs...

First time hatcher here, and I’m not sure I have done anything right from day one. To skip the long story below, I’m wondering if ANYONE has ever had eggs hatch after the incubator was opened/egg candled on day 21. I’m using borrowed equipment for my first hatch and wasn’t prepared before...