can i help my chicks break out of their eggs?

[nataliab]

You can help them only if there are problems, like the eggs drying out and the bird gets stuck inside then you can help them. Remember only if you need to, I do this when my eggs have problems hatching, they are fine afterwards.

my egg is starting to dry out. i took a little shell off but the little chick insie seems "comfortable" for a better word. not moving around too much and only a little peep now and then. it seemed like it was struggling so i got an earbud and dabbed some luke warm water on the membrane, is that alright? because she wont budge. i cant got o bed with the membrane drying up though what do i do?

 

[TweetyNPetey]

my egg is starting to dry out. i took a little shell off but the little chick insie seems "comfortable" for a better word. not moving around too much and only a little peep now and then. it seemed like it was struggling so i got an earbud and dabbed some luke warm water on the membrane, is that alright? because she wont budge. i cant got o bed with the membrane drying up though what do i do?

Take a sponge and soak it up with water (but not too wet!) and stick it in the bator. Just before you fall asleep, put another drop of water on the membrane, he should be fine until morning.

 

[Kelly1955]

I've had to break almost all my chickens out of their eggs, I believe the farmer who sent me the eggs must have been supplementing their calcium, because I had a hard time to break in. My first batch were so exhausted that I took them out of their shells, blood and all. I cleaned them up and dried them out and they all survived. (but it was gross). So this time I kept the humidity levels at 100f throughout the incubation period,and they still couldn't break out. so I broke a hole where I knew the air pocket was, and that I had decided, was all I would do. Then I saw something I've never seen or heard of, the first chicks started pulling shell and membrane off of their siblings still in the shell. They wouldn't let them lay there on the floor either, they pecked at their siblings feet and walked on them if they tried to lay down. Unfortunately there was a high volume of unfertilized egss. I could see inside all the brown eggs, but my candle couldn't help me see inside the green eggs of the Amercauna even when I turned the candle light to maximum. The bottom line for me was, do I watch them all die in the shell, or do something about it? I opted for the latter.