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[hippiestink]

Woohoo more chick pics!

 

[sonshine15]

Ok ya'll pip experts: This hatch has been perfect temps, humidity all the way through with the exception of the bulb going out in the bator on day 18 lockdown. First pip @ 9 pm last night with 5 more as of now, day 20. The first pip is one hole and the membrane looks dry. I'm trying not to open, help or anything else. Do you think it will just make it out on its own with the membrane looking dry? I'm trying to stop being a fiddler, and have helped other hatches before this due to bator issues...

 

[bantambury]

Ok ya'll pip experts: This hatch has been perfect temps, humidity all the way through with the exception of the bulb going out in the bator on day 18 lockdown. First pip @ 9 pm last night with 5 more as of now, day 20. The first pip is one hole and the membrane looks dry. I'm trying not to open, help or anything else. Do you think it will just make it out on its own with the membrane looking dry? I'm trying to stop being a fiddler, and have helped other hatches before this due to bator issues...

Is it a brown color? Sometimes my membrane looks dry but the chicks hatch out fine. Sometimes it can take up to 16 hours from pip to hatch.

This is one of my chicks from this hatch that pipped though one of its blood veins. I though the membrane was getting dry with a hole so large but he hatched out, just a bit later than the others

 

[sonshine15]

Is it a brown color? Sometimes my membrane looks dry but the chicks hatch out fine. Sometimes it can take up to 16 hours from pip to hatch.

This is one of my chicks from this hatch that pipped though one of its blood veins. I though the membrane was getting dry with a hole so large but he hatched out, just a bit later than the others

It's just white. It's not translucent in any way. Wow, I'm glad your baby hatched out ok! They truly are amazing with those blood veins just absorbing back up

 

[venymae]

First ones out!

hooray!

 

[tao chick]

It's just white. It's not translucent in any way. Wow, I'm glad your baby hatched out ok! They truly are amazing with those blood veins just absorbing back up

My question: I have been assuming that the white means a dry membrane, but now I'm wondering if that's true. The chicks that have hatched best for me needed no assistance and had white membranes. Maybe dry can be better than translucent?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Ok ya'll pip experts: This hatch has been perfect temps, humidity all the way through with the exception of the bulb going out in the bator on day 18 lockdown. First pip @ 9 pm last night with 5 more as of now, day 20. The first pip is one hole and the membrane looks dry. I'm trying not to open, help or anything else. Do you think it will just make it out on its own with the membrane looking dry? I'm trying to stop being a fiddler, and have helped other hatches before this due to bator issues...

99% of the time, if they pip they hatch! as long as you keep the bator closed and up the humidity! the pip areas do get dried out looking, thats normal

 

[sonshine15]

Thanks all of you!!! I have learned ...........that at times searching on BYC can give much wrong info lol. This group invariably has good info and experience

Congrats on your baby "v"

 

[Sally Sunshine]

they have two membranes, one is thicker and white, the one the embryo/chick is in is really really thin and has the blood vessels through it

Quote: from assisted hatch guide

 

[Sally Sunshine]

see the shell vs the membrane that has the vessels that encase the embryo/chick, you cant even see this through a pip most times!