Day 20 need reassurance

[Somshine]

Okay so I opened it up. There was no blood. The veins look like they had fully absorbed. But there was yoke everywhere and the yolk sack was still attached. You don't think that would mess them up if they're just running a little behind? Today is day 22

 

[Mrs J]

Okay so I opened it up. There was no blood. The veins look like they had fully absorbed. But there was yoke everywhere and the yolk sack was still attached. You don't think that would mess them up if they're just running a little behind? Today is day 22

I would quickly wipe the mess up in the incubator with a damp cloth, This is the perfect conditions for bacteria to thrive and could affect the remaining eggs.

 

[Somshine]

The hatch was a little different than my first one. Although I did everything the same. Yesterday one of them was born and crawling around with the others in the incubator and I started seeing blood all over the place. I figured out it was coming from this chicks umbilical area. Was not completely dried off. I quickly yanked it out and held a compress on it and wrapped it well and kept it warm. It was a lot of blood. And it was a little sleepy for a while. But today it's fine and doing well with the other chicks. This morning the second one that was zipping at 4:00 a.m. had halfway unzipped and just kept trying to push itself out. I could see a little blood tinging around the cracks it was making so I just left it alone. After a couple hours I can tell the membrane was drying around it and it wasn't coming out and it was starting to give up trying.. So I nipped the dry membrane and put it back in. It came out a few minutes later. Everything looked fine except it's little umbilical stump started to bleed. Not as much as the one yesterday. So I did the same thing and that one is fine now too. So I've got one with yoke all over the place and two that had a bleed. Both of the bleeders looked like they had bled some in the shell but by the time they had pushed themselves out there didn't look like there was much blood in any of the veins. Just still a not quite finished umbilical stump.

 

[NatJ]

You could always do the water test to double check.

If there is any reasonable chance that the eggs are fine but slow, just skip it.

Putting them in water does not help the chick in any way.
The only thing it does is give the person some chance of knowing what is going on inside the egg.

So doing it last thing before throwing eggs away, might have value. (If it moves, don't throw out the egg.)
But at any other point, I just wouldn't.

 

[Somshine]

I don't quite feel experienced enough to assist. Of course the way the one yesterday was bleeding I knew I had to get it out and make it stop. And the one this morning I could tell had been unzipped so long everything was starting to dry out in there so all I did was snip the dried membranes still attached at its zip that we're beginning to look like leather and let it finish on its own. I would have had no idea what to do with the one with the yolk.

 

[nuthatched]

You could always do the water test to double check.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/water-candling.966706/

Water candling is a last resort that shouldn't be performed on eggs remotely suspected to be alive, it will harm/kill them

 

[Somshine]

The incubator air does not smell bad at all. I feel like I should just leave the other three alone today. And maybe start worrying about cleaning up tomorrow?

 

[Mrs J]

Water candling is a last resort that shouldn't be performed on eggs remotely suspected to be alive, it will harm/kill them

I know, earlier in the thread the Op said she wasn’t sure that they were still viable.

 

[Somshine]

Considering I had the one with the yolk and then the two who's umbilical cords just didn't seem like they should have been where they were at while these chickens are hatching I can't help but think the other three maybe are giving themselves the time the others didn't give themselves.

 

[NatJ]

The incubator air does not smell bad at all. I feel like I should just leave the other three alone today. And maybe start worrying about cleaning up tomorrow?

It does take some time for bacteria to grow and become a problem. This only has a few more days to possibly be an issue (different than early incubation, when there are several weeks to go.)

Yes, I think leaving it for now could be reasonable.