Dented egg day 17

[TwoCrows]

And make sure your humidity is up around 60% to 65%.

 

[Coop-de-doop]

Yes, totally normal. After they pip to breathe air, they can sit like this for 12 to 24 hours, right now the chick is absorbing the last of the egg yolk and detaching itself from the shell. So sit tight, don't touch anything and don't panic. How egg-citing!

Okay thank you!

 

[BastyPutt]

Let's GOOOOO little chick.

Any idea on breed?

 

[Coop-de-doop]

Let's GOOOOO little chick.

Any idea on breed? Yes they’re all mixed. The one that’s pipping is my blue laced red Wyandotte covered by my French marans. Then another just started pipping!! It’s a gold laced covered by my marans rooster.

 

[Coop-de-doop]

That’s weird how it put my reply in your comment lol! I hope you can see it

 

[BastyPutt]

That’s weird how it put my reply in your comment lol! I hope you can see it

Got it. Those will be some interesting birds!

 

[TwoCrows]

 

[BastyPutt]

 

[Coop-de-doop]

A beak poked through last night after dinner. It peeped a little last night. It’s still in the same position, but looks like it’s panting.

 

[Coop-de-doop]

Also, this incubator is one a friend got at an auction. The shelves had big holes in them, so I put a plastic mesh canvas over. A chick would totally fall through if I didn’t. Well now that I’m up close staring at pipping chicks, I can see a gap from the shelf to the glass of the door, where a chick could fall down through. I’m afraid to open the door to add more mesh with 3 chicks pipping. I have to leave for church soon, and I’m worried they are going to fall to their doom while I am gone. Advice?