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Thanks for your insight! Yeah when they pipped at day 19 I was a little worried. I turned them less than 12 hours prior for the last time.....

Well good news after all! I have 16 chicks hatched and 2 more pipped. That just leaves 3 unhatched at the moment. So I guess the hatch just had a rough start 🤷‍♀️

Also thank you for the tip about emptying the water, however two are externally pipped.

Here's a picture. Yes, high humidity was my best guess. I don't have a hygrometer just because I always do the same thing and never have had problems like this. Thanks for your insight!

Ok. Day 19 two eggs pipped (yesterday morning). Woke up to one chick (not from one of the pipped eggs). One of the pipped eggs (this morning) had died. This thick amber substance has sealed the entrance to his pip and he probably suffocated. It like crystallized and sealed him in. Pipped egg #2...

We've had workers in our house for about a week doing some renovation projects. Four days ago, one of them accidentally tripped the breaker while closing the breaker box to the part of our house where my two incubators are plugged in. I was running errands and walked up to my incubators about 2...

Yes, the white is unique! Good luck! Hope you get a lookalike

Pullet

Yeah. That's a muff. Which means he very likely has some Ameraucana in him.

The only reason I don't think he could be a sapphire gem is because he has muffs.

Personally I would think that's not long enough after becoming broody.

Where did you get him? Probably an Easter egger if it's from a feed store.

I would check the APA standard of perfection

I really enjoy having Orpingtons and mixed breed hens in my flock!

I had a chick die during zipping recently as well. My best guesses are it hit a vein that for some reason hadn't receded yet and bled out, it overexerted itself, or it was in a bad position and twisted its neck too much or something. It could have been that the air cell was saddled or somehow...