Alright. Need advice. I'm on day 29. I had 10 healthy wiggly eggs at lockdown. Two have hatched. No pips at all on the rest.
Suggestions?
Suggestions?
Hatching peachicks
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Get a high lumen flashlite and see if there is movement or the airsack is broken and the chicks beak is inside the air sack. Or if you hold them against your ear and lightly tap on them,sometimes you can hear them chirp back at you
PS,,Candle them in a dark room,put the flashlite on the big air sack end pointing towards the pointy end,the air sack should be elongated by now
PS,,Candle them in a dark room,put the flashlite on the big air sack end pointing towards the pointy end,the air sack should be elongated by now
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Is it ok to open the lid? I know it's lockdown but there are no pips and the two that hatched are all fluffed out.
This is my first year incubating so I'm no expert, but someone else told me its fine to open the incubator during hatch. they said they take the chick out asa it hatches and moves them to the brooder to dry. clearly if this hurt the remaining eggs they wouldn't have had so many chicks 
Im personally hatching - I hope - our first eggs in three days, start lock down tomorrow morning
Im personally hatching - I hope - our first eggs in three days, start lock down tomorrow morning
It should be alright just make sure you have something soft to put the eggs in and don't turn them a bunch when you hold them since at this stage there shouldn't be any turning. Close the lid after you take the eggs out so the temp doesn't drop a bunch. Then you can do the candling and listening. Make sure the eggs you take out don't cool down too much while you have them out but it shouldn't take long to take them out and look at them.
You can go ahead and put the ones that hatched in their little peachick brooder with a heat lamp and food and water.
I open my hatcher and remove each chick after hatching. My hatcher is small and the newly hatched ones stumble around like little drunken sailors so they are shooting the unhatched eggs all over the place. I keep the humidity very high in the hatcher (90% or higher) this may help offset the drying out caused by my opening it.
If you can darken the room or block the light out of the bator that will stop them from moving around so much, they just go back to sleep
Half of them hatch in the middle of the night and the hatcher is in my bedroom so there is no light on. They wake me up with their chirping and they have usually already rolled the other eggs all over the place, I just pull them out and transfer them to the brooder box in the bathtub then put the other eggs back where they should be. Usually my humidity is back to 90% within 2 or 3 minutes, and we had only 1 sticky chick out of 45 last year that needed some assistance.
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Thank you everyone for your help. Unfortunately when i candled I didn't see any movement in any of the eggs at all. Two had internally pipped but none of the others. What causes chicks not to pip internally?
P.s. They are still in the incubator but I doubt any are still alive at this point.
P.s. They are still in the incubator but I doubt any are still alive at this point.
Being malpositioned will keep them from making the internal pip into the air space, but to have 8/10 malpositioned would be almost unheard of. There is nothing that can be done to prevent malpositioning and I tried to save a couple that were like this. I did get them out, but they never became conscious and didn't survive. I'm not sure what would cause 8/10 to progress so far and then not get out, did you have a back up thermometer in the bator/hatcher? Temp spike springs to mind. but that's just a guess.
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