1st Hatch - are shells normally gross inside?

[Livingskies]

I was expecting a cleaner shell.... But we've had 3 hatch so far and they are yucky inside. Bloody... And the umbilical cord things were still connected. They fell off after 5-10min.

There was still some yolk left in this one:

The rest looked more like this:

 

[HuffleClaw]

Yup, that happens.

 

[sylviethecochin]

I've never seen yolk left in an egg. Does the chick from that one look alright? The others look normal.

EDT: To elaborate. A chick forms out of the fertilised egg that sits on top of the yolk. The chick consumes the yolk, first forming an island of sorts on top of it, then beginning to grow around it (I don't remember the technical term.) until hatch day, when the chick absorbs the last of the yolk. The chick should have formed around the entire yolk, since this is its food source, and it should not have left part of the yolk out, because that breaking of the yolk sac to split it would leave the chick very open to infection. I'm tagging @Pyxis.

 

[HuffleClaw]

I've never seen yolk left in an egg. Does the chick from that one look alright? The others look normal.

Whoops! Until zooming in I didn’t realize that was yolk.

 

[Livingskies]

I've never seen yolk left in an egg. Does the chick from that one look alright? The others look normal.

Well, it looks similar to 2 others, which seem to have sparse, dry down. I struggled with temps the first half of incubation - the thermometer readings I found were wildly inaccurate, so ended up taking each eggs temp daily the second half and adjusting the air temps from there. I am expecting some issues because of this.

I'm not sure he would have hatched so early, except that the first to hatch ran around like a bull in a China shop, smashing over everyone and rolled this one over and a chunk of shell fell off. He hatched several hours later. I'm wondering if he would have normally hatched tomorrow day 22.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Well, it looks similar to 2 others, which seem to have sparse, dry down. I struggled with temps the first half of incubation - the thermometer readings I found were wildly inaccurate, so ended up taking each eggs temp daily the second half and adjusting the air temps from there. I am expecting some issues because of this.

I'm not sure he would have hatched so early, except that the first to hatch ran around like a bull in a China shop, smashing over everyone and rolled this one over and a chunk of shell fell off. He hatched several hours later. I'm wondering if he would have normally hatched tomorrow day 22.

Can you smear his navel with antibiotic ointment or iodine dilute? It's fairly common for a chick to leave the egg with a little yolk sticking out his navel. It's not at all common for the yolk to be left in the egg, and I'm really unsure of how that could possibly have happened.

 

[Livingskies]

I could yes but I thought I wasn't supposed to open the incubator yet until the hatch is done? Should I do it when I take him out tomorrow night or Friday? The first pip was this morning at 10am and first hatch was 5:30pm today (day 21). I have antibiotic cream in my medicine cabinet.

 

[sylviethecochin]

I could yes but I thought I wasn't supposed to open the incubator yet until the hatch is done? Should I do it when I take him out tomorrow night or Friday? The first pip was this morning at 10am and first hatch was 5:30pm today (day 21). I have antibiotic cream in my medicine cabinet.

Lockdown's more flexible than is advertised. The reason you're not supposed to open the incubator is so that you don't let humidity out. Retrieve the chick quickly and without moving the air around too much, and you're golden. Can you post pictures of the chick?

 

[Coffeebean1947]

Could it have possibly been a double yolker where the second chick didn't develop?

 

[007Sean]

Could it have possibly been a double yolker where the second chick didn't develop?

This is exactly what I'm thinking what happened...the second ovum didn't get fertilized.
If that's not the case, I don't see how the chick that hatched from that egg could have survived more than a few seconds.