Assisted hatch experts: I have a question the file didn’t answer.

[Pyxis]

I think you read this article, because I can see in this one where it says 12 hours multiple times. This is the one that I was talking about that is hard to follow, and, imo, wrong; a chick that didn't get to internally pip is definitely not going to be ready to hatch 10 to 12 hours after it externally pipped. It would still have a ton of absorbing to do.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching.64660/

I cannot find in my article anywhere that I said to help after 12 hours (aside from Call ducks), especially in this malposition, because that would be way too soon.

 

[Pyxis]

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Here:
After the “if the chick pipped the wrong end...”

Yep, that's not my article, and not the one I linked earlier

 

[as110]

Yep, that's not my article, and not the one I linked earlier

Oh crap.
I have been reading this every time I search for assisted hatch.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching.64660/

 

[as110]

Oh crap.
I have beed reading this every time I search for assisted hatch. This is the link address on the top of the page. It looks like the same file number.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching.64660/

 

[Pyxis]

Oh crap.
I have beed reading this every time I search for assisted hatch.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching.64660/

Yeah, I wouldn't go by that. Check this one out, the one I posted earlier:

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

I think you'll find it easier to read and follow (And it won't tell you to help a chick much too early like that one apparently does.)

 

[Pekin747]

The issue is opening the incubator. If I could open it I would just go ahead with the assist on the first one and wet the second obe, not worry abour the humidity.

At this point I have not opened the lid.

U do know u can open the lid for a short period of time

 

[as110]

Well my chickie is dead. It had jello all over the face and beak. The yolk has not absorbed. It looks like it died sometime after I went to bed. It looks like it drowned. The nostrils are full of gunk.

 

[as110]

U do know u can open the lid for a short period of time

I have been known to kill a chicken because I looked. I have never had a hatch where I didn’t feel I had to open and look. This time I really left things to happen without intervention. This one didn’t work either. Every year I end up with one or two chicks and of those some die in the first 6 months. I just don’t feel it’s worth it to hatch.
I am bummed again.

Still 7 more to go. Not positive I wll have more than 1 or 2 again this year.
It sucks.

 

[Kiki]

Have an independently purchased humidity gauge that has been salt tested in your incubator?

 

[as110]

Have an independently purchased humidity gauge that has been salt tested in your incubator?

Not this time. I did in previous hatches.