Day 23 and no movement

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Need some advice. I had one of my Plymouth Rock babies hatch on day 21. No issues with hatch. Now day 23. Candles eggs last night. Only movement in one. It looks like he was pushing at the internal membrane, but as of this morning still no internal pip. What do I do!?
 
I'm new to this as well. Im not sure. Some hatch late. My personal experience is that I had two hatch and the other six for some reason died. I do think that my humidity was too high and the embryos drowned. But again I'm trial and error right now trying to get it right.
 
Your issue sounds like my first several attempts, and my problem was humidity; I was following the incubator instructions for water adding, which meant my humidity was much too high. I would get a couple chicks hatch out, but most died in the shell, often fully formed. I switched to hatching dry my last several hatches and have got my hatch rates up much closer to 90%. Sometimes I even have them dry at hatch time -not exactly recommended but I wasn't sure where to put the water in my new cabinet incubator- and I still get the majority to hatch out. Note that I have had to help several, but that's more positioning troubles than drying out.
 
cowgrl644 said:
Need some advice. I had one of my Plymouth Rock babies hatch on day 21. No issues with hatch. Now day 23. Candles eggs last night. Only movement in one. It looks like he was pushing at the internal membrane, but as of this morning still no internal pip. What do I do!?
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I would make a window into the air cell of this one and have a look. Do you see a beak? What do the blood vessels look like? If there's no beak by now, especially if the vessels look dark rather than bright red, this means your chick is malpositioned and you'll need to go in and rescue it or it will suffocate.
My chick "Sponge" looked like that and I had to chip away half her shell before I could find her beak so she could breathe, she was that badly stuck in the egg. I'm pretty sure I got to her quite close to when it would have been too late, too, as she could barely move for an entire day after I freed her due to her being so weak.
Since then, if I have an egg with no sign of pipping after other eggs are hatched out I make a window to see what's going on. They're usually dead by then, unfortunately, but it'll save more chicks than doing nothing.
 
DanikaNevin said:
I'm new to this as well. Im not sure. Some hatch late. My personal experience is that I had two hatch and the other six for some reason died. I do think that my humidity was too high and the embryos drowned. But again I'm trial and error right now trying to get it right.
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If you let the air cells guide you, it will cut down on the trial and error phase because you can see the effect of your humidity and adjust accordingly. http://letsraisechickens.weebly.com...anuals-understanding-and-controlling-humidity
 

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