Advice needed please!

[Pyxis]

@Pyxis are you familiar with banty hatching chickens I am pretty well versed not banty

Yes, I hatch bantams They are pretty much the same as regular LF chickens as far as hatching goes.

Yes, the one I helped is alive he's walking around doing great there's another one that was chirping inside trying to poke through the membrane so I broke it and I saw blood so I stopped. I'm worried about the bannie eggs that were put in the same day as a chicken eggs! I did not realize they had different due dates. I'm afraid I lost my bannies! Any advice on what to do? Do I just leave them be or crack One open and see if it's alive when I candle them it shows a bunch of dark and the air bubble but that's all I can see

Do not try to help them without knowing what you're doing, or you could kill them. When you see blood, you need to stop, so it's good that you stopped. Was there a reason you thought they needed help? Had it been over 24 hours since they had externally pipped?

Bantams will have the same hatch date as the LF eggs you set, unless you're hatching seramas. Do not crack them open if you don't know for a fact that they're dead.

I would recommend you read this guide to assisted hatching:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

And this guide to incubation for beginners:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-beginners-guide-to-incubation.73350/

Also, have you increased the humidity for lockdown? Have you unplugged the turner now that you know they don't need it any longer? If not, you need to do those things.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Please do follow what @Pyxis is helping there alright and hop all goes well Merry Christmas and glad you joined Backyard Chickens. I will be lurking here to see the rest as they hatch