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I agree with the human part - but. I tend to disagree overall. That is not how 'survival of the fittest' works. In general, if a chick needs to be helped out, normally the breeder did something wrong. Or the genetics weren't vigorous. On a very few occasions I have helped but only when I thought...

It was disappointing to start getting 50 gram eggs regularly rather than the 70 gram eggs they should be. The other problem with hatching from small pullet eggs is that they contain all the nutrition and space the embryo will ever have. Unlike live bearers like mammals and some fish, embryos...

We all have to do what is best for our personal situation. While a general rule is that pullet eggs shouldn't be incubated till approaching full size and young roosters should be given a time so their swimmers can be more reliable. I had mink attacks several years ago where every bird in every...

I'm not trying to beat you up. It is just that everyone has different conditions and equipment. So just suggesting opening the incubator mid hatch for any reason can be a recipe for disaster. That's why BYC calls it 'lockdown'. I have a cabinet incubator hatcher combo that I built from scratch...

It must be very humid in your house. Especially in winter when house humidity is low, just cracking the lid for a moment will lose enough humidity here that pipped eggs will shrink wrap almost instantly no matter how quickly higher humidity is resumed.

How do you do all that while keeping the incubator closed? Count me among them. Nothing to worry about. Good job.

That's a good thing.

Sit on your hands and ignore it till they are done. If you did everything right up to now, everything will be fine. If you didn't do everything right, it is too late to fix it.

What is important to remember is that the majority (nearly 100%) of things that prevent healthy chicks from emerging on their own happened long before day 21. Some even months to years before. And the more people think they need to intervene can even be counterproductive. That is especially true...

Day 22 or later.