The paper towels seemed to have softened the shells!! The first egg hatched on its own even though we thought we needed to help it!!! :D :D :D I'm soooooo happy it's adorable, and so tiny!
UPDATE: So there are now 2 eggs that have pipped. We opened up the pipping place more on one of them, and were planning to do a complete hatch tonight, but saw some blood-filled veins in the inner membrane. It is wrapped in a warm, wet paper towel as are the others. I will continue to help it in...
I tried to help the first one that pipped because it had been more than 12 hours since it pipped and it hadn't made any progress... When I opened up the place where the pip was, the chick was not peeping, tapping, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't breathing. I am so sad but I put it back in the...
One externally pipped, and I made a safety hole in another. Both are peeping!!! There are 2 more (I think) that have moving beaks in the air sack but there is no tapping yet. When I was making the safety hole, the shell was reallllyyy hard! I think they will have trouble hatching because of a...
I candled them and there is one that has broken through the air sack and is tapping and one that is trying to break through the air sack. The other 5 I didn't see move... I'm worried!!!
It's the morning of day 27 in the bator for my calls and there is no progress in external pipping... I'm worried because I thought that on day 23 that the temp gets turned down to 98.... Was I wrong??? HELP PLEASE
It's the morning of day 27 in the bator for my calls and there is no progress in external pipping... I'm worried because I thought that on day 23 that the temp gets turned down to 98.... Was I wrong??? HELP PLEASE
Hi my eggs are on day 26 and I put them on lockdown day 23. I turned the temp down to 98 is that too low??? The humidity is up to 60% but is 98 degrees too low?