Day 18 for my seramas. *UPDATE*pics&questions

[rodriguezpoultry]

You won't suffocate them? They need to breathe air anyway? The only thing you'll be doing is changing the humidity SLIGHTLY as you lift the lid to get the chicks out.

You can take chicks out even if there are pips. I've done it that way for years? Sometimes the chicks get a bit too rambunctious and roll the eggs ALL around while the others are trying to hatch. I just reach in and take out the chicks. No harm, no foul.

 

[IcedMochaChick]

I just worry about the membrane shrinking around the chicks still in the eggs. It happened with our last hatch and it was terrible! The brooder is ready, maybe I'll pull them out quickly. Is it unusual to have 3 hatched and no more pipped? Could they still hatch?

 

[IcedMochaChick]

Here are the chicks we have so far.
The first one hatching.

#1 and #2 chick!

Here's #3! Laying on the thermometer, of course.