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My husband is for sure tired of "chick" talk!!! We will see how the rest go. I am not sure why they have not pipped yet. I am assisting no more! I almost feel like i should just check back in a few days....I have loved so many parts of this experience. I just feel so responsible for these...

I did put a wet towel in......I am wondering if their shells are to think or something!

My humidity is high (I live in Va and they are in the basement where the humidity is naturally higher) and we have water in the incubator . It reaches about 80%.... The one that I did help yesterday (apparently killing new one....sigh) is still alive. She sounds very raspy when breathing...

I had a chick pip yesterday afternoon. Last night I could still see her pecking and making some progress. This morning she is dead and the membrane appears to have shrunk around her. I have the humidity high. I did have to help the one from yesterday and wonder if this could be from me...

we have three live babies, one hatched and died yesterday (after and hour or so she just did not seem right, her head remained tucked during the hatching and her wings were out now i realize she was presenting wrong but, i am so scared to help). Last night number 5 pipped. Everything appeared...

Wow thanks! I have really learned a lot from this group. While the first two were hatching(which was a painful process for me!) and while picking which eggs to trash! The great news is I did not have any stinky eggs....I still have a questionable one. It has an air pocket on the side too...

I do have a question. Can I put the new chicks in with the 2 week old two? I am thinking shear numbers will help the new ones if i leave them in the incubator until a few are hatched.

So we bought my childhood farm. Horses, dogs, and cars have been a staple. I wanted chickens. So I did research, and now we have 8. 6 RIR and 2 amiericana chickens (all doing well). We then collected eggs for a friend who told us to fill the bucket with water, the ones that floated were...