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You cannot open your incubator during lockdown. I really am one of the most impatient people I know but you just have to leave them alone and not handle them too much. I hand turned some of mine in a second hand hovabator still air and they all hatched. I candled maybe 4 times the whole time...

HeyHeyPaULA--So cute!!! I STILL don't have anything happening with my eggs! Day 21 started at 6am for me today! Should I be worried? Is there anything I should do? I candled them earlier today already and I don't want to mess with them but I'm scared that nothing is happening...My temp and...

How do you candle them while they are in lockdown?

Do you think he is splay legged? You could try the shoes and a hobble for a couple of days. Could he be lonely or too cold?

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

More baby pics This is the one I had to help A couple Araucana in the mix :)

Glad everyone is starting to pip and pop

Thanks! I have never done that before. I always let them hatch but she pipped like 36 hours ago. Poor girl needed help.;)

Aftetr 7 hours i got the porcelain silkie out! Her yolk sac was completely absorbed, i think she just ran out of energy. My hatch is offically over. Whew im tired. I set 24 silkies, 12 clears, 1 blood ring. 11 went to lockdown. 1 died after pipping. I have 3 buff, 1 paint, 1 porcelain , 1...

I am assiting the little porcelain silkie. I am following sally sunshines advice page. She is in the incubator with half her shell off and her inner membrane still intact. Her little beak is sticking out and she cheeps occasionally. I hope this works out. She is our only porcelain egg.

You give chickens water as soon as they are out of the incubator

Sorry I dont know anything about ducks. I have read that when you first get them to only give a samll amount of water at first. I guess they can gorge and die.

I decided to look at the one I thought was dead and it was dead. It externally pipped but then died. When I opened it there was this a large red thing that looked like liver and a whole lot of green fluid in there. Its yolk sac had been absorbed. I think this is the one that had looked strange...

Baby photos- 2 buff silkies and a splash

I have two that are still pipped. One looks good but the other does not. The membrane is dark and yucky looking. I am going to wait for the good one to hatch and then I may open to check out the other one. It pipped on the bottom yesterday morning and has never broken through the membrane. I...

another white is out

No day 19 is not too soon. It takes FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREVER! Its like watching plants grow. We just had a paint silkie and a white hatch. The white was pipped at 7 am yesterday morning and just hatched now!

Yes they started early on day 20. Today is day 21 and I did not set them until 8 pm. Number 4 is out