Hello,
I started an assisted hatch yesterday at about 5 pm- that was day 25. We just opened up the shell at the air cell wide enough to see that he was just a bit behind and seemed to be doing well. It is now 12:30 on day 26 and he's very active- the problem is is that he is trying to break out...
Update- I candled today and there was an internal pip. Tapping on the shell and whistling got me two very weak cheeps, and holding the egg up to my ear I could hear light tapping. I'm worried the little guy is too weak to pip- I have to leave until about 4:30 but if I got back and there was no...
Thank you SO MUCH for your help. We sat down to try to figure out what we did wrong and compared images of a previous death (around day 12) to images we found online- the embryo appeared to be closer to the day 6 one on the website. We are thinking that, since it is a still air incubator and we...
Hi! This is my first chicken egg (only one- the others passed) and I just made this account so I'm pretty new. It's day 24 of a pretty rocky incubation- temp has been fine the whole time but the humidity was too high the first 18 days and while I thought it was fine during lockdown the air cell...