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    Opened egg that should have hatched last week to find live chick??????

    OK, that was great advice. I opened them all by pecking a tiny hole in the top of the egg and looking in with the flashlight. 5 of them were not even fertile (DUH, I guess I skipped candling this time altogether). 3 had chicks in them, one was dead, and there are two that appear to be hanging...
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    Opened egg that should have hatched last week to find live chick??????

    It had actually been 24 days, not 26. I full out opened the egg, I was sure there were no survivors. I put the remaining 8 back in the bator and upped the humidity. The eggs are dark and don't show much upon candling.
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    Opened egg that should have hatched last week to find live chick??????

    So, obviously killed it Now I have 8 more eggs that have been in the incubator for 26 days (chicken eggs) I am terrified to open them!! We had a humidity problem in our Bator at got a very poor hatch. I was cleaning it out to start again and to my horror, one of the 4 eggs that I opened had...
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