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It is day 24 of incubation.... I see nothing. At what point do I give up on my poor chicks?

What day were they at at this point? SO happy for you :)

over 30 hours

I have one that has pipped but hasn't done anything in a long time.

My manual was wrong (poorly translated directions) and I had my humidity over 70 percent all 21 days... do you think there's a chance of survival? I am doing it with my class and feel devastated that we've gone this long and the students are so excited... I hope I don't have to dash their hopes :(

I feel most concerned for the one that has made no progress in over 24 hours....

Should the day they were set be day 1 or day 0? Now i am questioning what day I am on with mine lol

I'm in the same boat as you currently.. don't want my students to be devastated....

We are doing a classroom hatch. I did it last year and got 9/10 eggs to hatch. Currently we are at day 21. I noticed one beak poking out yesterday (Day 20) at lunch time. Now it is almost 6 o'clock on Day 21 and no progress has been made. None of the other eggs are showing any signs of...

Update! There are at least 6 chicks hatched. Its hard to tell as they keep moving and the cover of my incubator is dark. How long do I give them until I can take them out? There are still 3 or 4 unhatched eggs.

I'm playing chick noises for them currently to motivate them :P

Maybe I need to sleep at school overnight lol

Ok! It just seems like the poor thing isn't making any progress!

Hello everyone, I am a Grade 2 Teacher incubating some chicks for the first time with my class. This morning when I came to school (around 7) I noticed some cracks in some of the eggs. I was very excited! Soon after I saw a little beak peaking out of one of the eggs. Now its been 9 hours and...