Anyone hatching April 5-7 or so? ALL DONE, READY TO BE LOCKED

[Rebecca and Paul]

HELP!!
i have a pip from over 24 hours ago still not out do i need to help him out or give him more time he has stopped moving around too much and still has a pip thats about the size of a small pea
but one from about 2am worked its way out in about 15mins

and another one hatched alittle while after but both pipped over 14 hours after the first
What Do I Do?????????

 

[Rebecca and Paul]

my first two babies!! (sorry about pics they are from my cell phone camera)

 

[skillswife]

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You can have some of mine if yours don't work

My incubators decided to do their job and my shipped eggs have decided to develop. I have not been over 50% hatch rate ever! And most of the time I get 25-30 %. I decided to try dry incubation method... I have no clue what I'm going to do. I started with 68 eggs and i have only thrown 9 out. What the heck am I going to do if all 59 eggs hatch, like.it looks like they are going to do

Well I have 30 chicks already, these are my lemon blue cochin eggs and I so want some! If you have any of them I might take a couple, lol

 

[speckledhen]

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That is up to you, really. Many refuse to help, but I have occasionally found that some chicks grow too large for their egg or they are in a strange position for hatching. 24 hours is the point where you have to decide whether to help or not. I think there is a sticky on how to do it, let me see.


Here it is! https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9316

 

[Rebecca and Paul]

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That is up to you, really. Many refuse to help, but I have occasionally found that some chicks grow too large for their egg or they are in a strange position for hatching. 24 hours is the point where you have to decide whether to help or not. I think there is a sticky on how to do it, let me see.


Here it is! https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9316

thanks for the advice i decided to help him out but when i got back to the bator he had hatched lol it took him like 5 mins!

 

[speckledhen]

LOL, that's great! Guess he decided to begrudgingly come into the world.

 

[Rebecca and Paul]

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he is my first cuckoo maran to hatch out the other two were arucanas i think
i have 6 more pips now

 

[mstricer]

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...and the pictures of these new arrivals are where? Come on....let's see the babies!

Here you go

 

[Rebecca and Paul]

i am having trouble maintaining my temp
can anyone tell me whats ok for hatching? (my humidity is 76%)
and how long should it take for a chick to fluff out? (its been almost 6 hours and he is still just as wet)
thanks

 

[mstricer]

I try and go by condensation on windows if theres a lot then humidity is to high, there will be some after each hatch though. temp should be around 99* forced air 101* still air