Chick hatching for the first time.

[ChickBator]

Heyyyy so after battling for 3 weeks with humidity (troubles getting it above 30 since its home made) my chicks are in lock down! Despite humidity problems the temperature stayed about 100 perfect almost the entire time (house heater broke and it got down to 97-98 for a couple hours in the incubator.)

So today is day 19 and I woke up at 5am for the bathroom, so I also checked the temp while I was up (I do so obsessively lol) and SUPRISE! One of my chicks pipped! I got all excited, but I was tired so I went back to sleep.
When I woke up at around 10 and remembered the pip, I went back and found an already dried out cute little fluff ball black chick! (I bought them local and the gal says they're all random mixed breeds haha)

Here's where I need help though.
While reading these forums, I read there should be no veins left in the egg when the chick comes out... But with my chick, there is. x.x is she going to be ok? She seems fine so far, but I don't imagine that missing veins could be a good thing for very long... (Humidity caused perhaps? Got it to 42 but still not to 65...)

Then there's the other three chicks that pipped after the first hatched.
The two in the brown eggs that pipped did so correctly, right side up with the air sack! But their veins are still all over in the egg ((
How long until the blood/veins leave the side walls? It appears that the yolk is in the chicks but I can really tell. Will they wait until the blood is in their body? If they don't wait will they still be ok? If the bleed some is that ok or bad? Thanks in advance, bear with me please!

Now comes the other egg that pipped. Let's start with this. I had 4 blue eggs, 2 were never fertile (only 2 infertile in batch of 15) and I believe that one died in the past few days. (Going to wait and see though) Finally, the last blue egg is the one that pipped. Sure enough, he never rolled around, so he pipped upside down.
He may or may not have his yolk in yet?? I really can't tell at all. But I can still see the veins lined all the way around the inside of the shell, which brings me back to the other questions. Think the chicken will be ok? I read that if you must help, make sure there's no veins or blood. Should I help? How long until blood/veins go away?

Again, this is day 19/21. I really hope they hatch healthy! Temp today is still 100, humidity is 55. (I have the entire room set up for them so there is no open/closing and incubator, just the door to the room.)

Thanks for any and all help. If you need photos, you'll have to tell me how to attach them, haha.

 

[ChickBator]

I don't think I mentioned that this is my first time. Also, Figured out how to upload! Haha.

here's the first chicken!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Lets start with the two that have pipped. Why are you seeing the veins??? How are seeing to tell the yolk?? If these guys have pipped they need to be left alone to do their thing. As long as the membrane around the pip hole is nice and white and dry and the chick is breathing and not in distress it should be left alone. From pip to zip can and more often than not does take a good 12-24 hours.. Yes, sometimes a chick will pip and expire. But you have just as high if not a higher probability of causing problems if you interfer in the process with out it being warranted.

Now, the malepositioned chick. He's the one you need to keep a closer eye on. If he has a clean hole to breath and the membrane looks good give him time. A malpositioned pipper takes even LONGER to pip because they missed that step of pipping into the air cell and resting. The most you should do is widen the pip hole and make sure the position he's in is ok (his foot isn't over his head or his head isn't between his legs type thing.) If he's in the right position, (head under wing) he shoud be ok, and just given extra time. The only time you should help is in dire circumstances and you are sure that w/o help he'll die. If the membrane around the pip starts turning yellow and leathery, it needs attention and it is drying out and probably becoming glued to the chick. Then you get in there, widen the hole, moisten the membrane and if you have to, unstick whatever is stuck to the chick, wrap it in a wet paper towel and replace it to the bator to give it time to make it's own progress. With your humidity only being only 55% I would not be opening that bator any more than you absolutely have to or you will cause shrink wrapping/glued chicks because of low humidity.

The chick that hatched. As long as he doesn't have bloody membrane attatched to him, he's fine. Ultimately the best circumstances is for the conditions to be close to perfect and there be very little sign of the veins left in the membrane as possible, but that's not always the case. As long as the chick isn't still attached and there's bleeding between the two, you're good.

Good luck with the rest. I would highly recommend you read: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching before assisting or messing with the unhatched chicks.