day 21 easter egg hatched yolk issue plz HELP

[chickenreyna]

3:30 am i heard chirping ao i looked in my incubator and saw a chick trying to hatch then i noticed the yolk was still there so i took a barely even considered damp paper towel and placed it around it, in a cup. It is acting fine chirping and alert. When do i take it out of the cup???im scared yolk hasn't fully absorbed maybe issues with humidity since ot would be considered 21 and a half days this morning. Yyyyyyg

 

[chickenreyna]

Please help. Obviously my humidity wasnt right since it wa 21 & 1/2 days this morningy

 

[Welshies]

You need to ensure that your humidity is around 70%. Don't help your chick. They need to absorb the yolk. Here is a great thread.

 

[chickenreyna]

its bottom shell is still attached might i add its been in the cup since around 330am with a paper towel wrapped around it. Its behavior is fine

 

[Welshies]

its bottom shell is still attached might i add its been in the cup since around 330am with a paper towel wrapped around it. Its behavior is fine

It should still be in the incubator. Otherwise it may not hatch at all.

 

[Welshies]

Maintain a temperature of around 100 F (37.5 C) and 65%-70% humidity.

 

[chickenreyna]

Its in in the incubator

 

[happyhens1972]

You said the chick was TRYING to hatch and you put it in a cup. Does that mean it is still fully or partly in its shell with membrane intact or has it hatched out of the shell and still has some external yolk?

 

[Welshies]

Its in in the incubator

Good. Maintain your temperature and humidity. Take it out of the cup and away from the paper towel or it could drown- too much humidity has ill effects.
Don't open the incubator again until the chick is dry and ready to be moved to the brooder.

 

[chickenreyna]

Its chirping abd alert in a cup in my incubator. Its yolk wasnt fully absorbed so zi placed a paper towel arounf it and put it in a cup thid morning its already hatched its chirping i need to know how long to leave it in cupin the incubator. .