Are They Dead!! Or What!!

[Shauna's Silkies]

Hi im on day 23 of hatching and nothing is happening!!! are they daed!!!!
i really need advice!!! PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!
Maybe i should just wait and wait!!
im so exicited!! i want them to hatch so badly!!!
Thanks.. ha

 

[tec27]

Try picking them up. After 23 days if you pick them up you should feel moving or it should start to chirp. Moving the eggs stimulates hatching. Or they could just be dead.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

A dip in temps can slow incubation and delay hatching.

Day 1 is the day AFTER you set the eggs in the incubator, so you might be on day 22.

 

[Shauna's Silkies]

ill try picking them up...... no im on day 23 cause i counted after lik u saide... thanks

 

[ultra1classic]

what wad your humidity % when you put them in lockdown?

 

[Shauna's Silkies]

I donno.... cause on the mannual it said just to fill the pots and humidy will be grand... and i bought a hygro-meter and it doesnt work!!!!!!
im hatching 7 silkies in brinsea mini advance incubator

 

[ultra1classic]

Shauna's Silkies :

I donno.... cause on the mannual it said just to fill the pots and humidy will be grand... and i bought a hygro-meter and it doesnt work!!!!!!
im hatching 7 silkies in brinsea mini advance incubator

when i go into lockdown (with silkies) i run my humidity up between 65 and 70 %​

 

[Shauna's Silkies]

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Just picked 2 out of 7 up.... and i think its very hard to feel movment... nothing chirped.... i candled 1 very quickly ( cause didnt want heat to go very low) and there is somthing in there!!!!!!
WHAT IS HAPPING!!!!!

 

[tec27]

If you maintained a temp between 98-103 throughout the entire incubation then picking them up for 20 even 30 minutes wont hurt them. They should be hatching any hour. I just hatched a bunch of easter eggers and on the 21st day i thought one egg was dead so i picked it up and i felt a shuffle like my hand jerked. Then i heard some faint chirping. Candling at this point would be useless. There is definitely something in there its just knowing if its alive or not. Picking them up wont hurt them either. If you think about it, when a chick hatches, it stumbles over all the eggs moving them around. This tells the other ones to wake up and get going. Good luck.

 

[Shauna's Silkies]

Thanks so much thats grat help.....
wish me good luck.. haha

thanks every1 so much