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Oh yes, this isn't my first rodeo I've refined a separate hatching method specifically for detached air cells as well, brought my hatch rate up from 10% to 50-80%... shipped eggs are just really, really tough. I have come a long way in my incubation techniques, I'm finally confident that I...

yes it is, and I actually use 2 of them... I had a very steady temp the whole time, too. they were shipped and detached air cells, but I had very high hopes! it seems to me that they are mostly having malposition problems, I am guessing due to shipment? they were in an auto-turner. I took some...

wow, thanks for sharing. some of this sounds eerily similar to what I've just been through. I'm on day 22 with 2 side pips and 6 eggs without any external pip. one air cell is way off to the side of the egg, not in the top at all, probably malpositioned and the first one I would assist if I...

sadly, the first two pips from day 21 did not survive, they were both below the air cell. The one that was bleeding I discovered in eggtopsy that it actually pipped just below where the air cell started. there was a big thick active vein right there on the border and the chick pipped right into...

I just spent some time outside with the big chickens to distract myself from my incubator, and moved my 5 and 8 week old chicks out into the run for some fresh air.. I came back to see a BLOOD coming out of the pipped egg.. omg.. I had a heart attack.. I brought it into a steamy room and I put...

Love the pic! Welcome little peeps! Day 21 here: I woke up to 2 pips! one of them is verrry low on the egg.. it is in a carton.. I might take it out and lay it on it's side if it doesn't progress... there isn't room in the carton for the shell to fall away at all..

thanks.. yes I am checking about every 10 minutes LOL

how COOL! great photo! day 20 here.. STILL no pips.. omg I am losing my mind over here! c'mon babies!!

I like to use a wet sponge (new, in the package) a soaking wet blob of paper towel works too I like these options because they are easily removed if humidity gets too high. a small dish or cup of water could work too. it is all about the surface area of water to increase humidity.

I agree with the thought that artificial incubation, turning, and hatching has already interfered with nature so much that assistance is only one very small step further. I might feel differently if I were incubating eggs from my backyard, but I'm usually incubating shipped eggs which have gone...

Hi ya'll! I am moving over here from the March hatch-a-long, boy March went by FAST! I started out over there, but my eggs are actually due April 3rd!!! what a dummy, I guess I should have been in this thread all along today is day 18 for me! I set shipped eggs, with detached air cells :( I...