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Look at this!!!! It’s doing great!

Final update for now. Only one survived. The first one. It’s now in a different incubator with a few egg buddies (had to take it out of the one it was in because we need to lock down the 3 eggs that are in that one. Unfortunately the other two just didn’t make it. Hoping this little one survives...

Update. It finally absorbed its yolk sac! It’s out of the incubator and into brooder and the rest will stay undisturbed in the incubator

So it’s been over 24 hours since my first post. I don’t know why but these chicks seem so tiny and not ready to be out (I have the days calculated exactly and written down today is officially Day 23 but they were put in on the morning before so actually 24 days old) but the first one came out...

Thanks for your continued help. Much appreciated. Normally I’m good with this but this is a whole new scenario for me. 🙄

Wish I could tell where the other babies beaks are. 😬

Got a tiny opening in memebrane and beak is able to get out and breathe. The other 2 that are left I can’t see at all, where the head is so I’ll just leave them for now

Ok just went to pull a teensy but open with needle nose tweezers, by the beak and I got this red dot blood and I stopped

Oh and temps and humidity showing in incubator are just because it was opened. They are back to proper measurements within 10 minutes

Hi all. We have hatched many batches of chicks and all had either pips or peeping sounds by day 22. Ours seemed like a faulty batch this time. Only 5 out of 30 were viable by lockdown. This morning was Day 22 with still no peeping or activity at all. So, based on previous experience of not...