It’s day 23 today, the temperature is controlled by a electronic thermostat, I’ve hatched 4-5 batches with it but that doesn’t mean that mabey I became off somehow. The humidity was kept around 50 so I bumped back to 60 like always. I haven’t removed the turner because the eggs lay on their sides on it and I’ve always hatched eggs with it in there but never on like this time. They are still alive so I’m giveing them more time, there’s 40 eggs in there. Still no pipping, so I’m really confused. I assume it would be stupid, but in another day or two would carefully cracking the eggs open help? I know your not supposed to help hatch chicks but I’ve done it before with chicks that had already tried to hatch and had some success.
I would take the turner out and put down paper towels or shelving liner and lay the eggs on that. Chicks can get hurt in the turners. Also I would double check your temps, like I said, low temps will delay hatch. It is definitely possible to help chicks hatch. But timing is very important. At this point I would just give it time and keep candling to check for internal pips. Also you should read this:
I did read the article and it did help! One of the three I helped hatch I removed the bottom part of the shell where the air sack was then removed the membrane. There was some bleeding but not too bad. The other two eggs all I did was make a small hole in the air sack area of the shell and one of them I made a small hole in the membrane. However I discovered last night after I did all this that I was actually correct on my original time and they where not supposed to hatch until tomarrow, so the one I really”helped” hatch probably won’t make it, while the other 2 still might. I feel terrible that I miss read the calendar and did all that too early, but I guess things happen.
Well I had 28 out of 40 hatch, so I’m pretty happy with that! Looks like there wasn’t much of a harmful affect on them!
