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Welcome and congratulations! I hope you are settling into your new home and your flock as well ;) Sounds like you are doing a great job creating a nice space for your pullets. I am quite new to raising chickens also and I can honestly say, BYC will be helpful for sure! There are many people...

Thank you so very much! Your advice and guidance was so very helpful and kind of you. That is brilliant about checking humidity requirements for my area- I wouldn’t have thought to do so... I had a rough start in the beginning when I set eggs to incubate in a homemade incubator only to quickly...

Thank you so much. No, we lost our beautiful Silkie Roo, Pearl, to a hawk a couple of weeks ago. So I attempted to hatch about 24 eggs to start and this little one was the sole survivor. I was so hopeful because it seemed to be doing well and made it this far. We’re heartbroken. But I tried my...

@Broodermy, @BaaKaaawk, @Tycine1, @SunriseChickers, @Lilalienangel UPDATE: I just wanted to thank each and every one of you lovely people for helping me this morning. There’s still good in this world ;) Unfortunately, this little babe didn’t make it. It turned out that the bum was sitting at...

I don’t think that went too well... I am heartbroken. It turns out his bottom was located at air cell end of egg and when outer membrane tore it started bleeding, must’ve been stuck to inner membrane. I stopped it with cloth, then I slowly chipped away at shell until I found his beak and sure...

Does it matter if the membrane is broken anywhere because I can’t see where head or beak is currently.

I really appreciate your help!

I think I’m going to wait just a bit. I’m not confident to open the membrane with all the veins I can see. Is there a point that is obvious when to intervene further?

Hello! Did this little one make it? I’m in the same situation and panicking!

I see a lot of veining still on inner membrane. Am I puncturing the outter membrane only in attempt to find his head?

Thank you so much for your help. I will try and feel for the beak. I’m worried it may be malpositioned. I can only see a dark blob, no legs, eye or beak. But I will try!

I can just see movement that is more like breathing, the membrane will expand a bit and retract. There is no internal pip and I can’t feel or see a beak. I honestly can’t make out what I am looking at.

Hello, I’m new to backyardchickens and new to hatching. I am currently panicking. I set eggs on 9/24. On Sunday evening, 10/13 with one surviving embryo; I set for lockdown. When candling, embryo was doing well and had beautiful healthy veins but appeared to be in the small side. Hatch date to...

@ValerieJ Massachusetts

@FortCluck This is so true!

Thank you @ValerieJ I’ve been having trouble identifying what day we’re actually on. Today should be day 20 but we had a rough start in homemade incubator, then switched to auto incubator. So I believe development was delayed. I would hope and assume that within the next 2 days?

@ronott1 I love it!!! I certainly do! I’m glad I’m not the only one...

Thank you @ValerieJ! This was so helpful. I’ve been looking around for some time now. I’m new to all of this and still discovering resources in my area. I have yet to come across available chicks :( But I am still searching.

@fldiver97 Thank you for sharing; I love that idea!

@SoftSilkie I’m so sorry to hear that. Thank you so much for sharing :)