First Time Egg Candler Scared!

[sideWing]

So I have six healthy looking chicks crashing around in there. It doesn't look like the other 8 have even piped. What is the likelihood that they will still hatch? Should they have piped by now?

 

[firsttimehatch1]

okay so we are up to 9 and number 10 is on its way. The other 2 dont seem to be making any progress. Here is my box for them at school. What do you think? Anything you would add?

 

[sideWing]

okay so we are up to 9 and number 10 is on its way. The other 2 dont seem to be making any progress. Here is my box for them at school. What do you think? Anything you would add?

Looks awesome! Do you have a heat lamp? Or other heat source?

 

[firsttimehatch1]

yes i have a heat lamp ... and then there were 10!!!

 

[scflock]

So I have six healthy looking chicks crashing around in there. It doesn't look like the other 8 have even piped. What is the likelihood that they will still hatch? Should they have piped by now?

There's still a good chance. My last hatch half of them had hatched and dried off before the other half started pipping

 

[sideWing]

There's still a good chance. My last hatch half of them had hatched and dried off before the other half started pipping

Thank you! I don't know what I would do without you folks. They are tipped over all over the place. Should I try to straighten them out or just leave them as they were kicked.

 

[scflock]

Thank you! I don't know what I would do without you folks. They are tipped over all over the place. Should I try to straighten them out or just leave them as they were kicked.

Didn't I read that you had them in cartons? Tipped won't hurt them at all. Mine get rolled quite a bit by the first hatchers

 

[sideWing]

Didn't I read that you had them in cartons? Tipped won't hurt them at all. Mine get rolled quite a bit by the first hatchers

Mine were not in cartons. I had them on their side.

 

[scflock]

Mine were not in cartons. I had them on their side.

Yeah, I'm sorry. I went back and looked at your pics. Are the chicks still in there? Don't tell Amy I said this, but if they are in there, and the others aren't pipped, I would go ahead and take them out. You have a lot of open space in your incubator, and I can just see the chicks rolling eggs from one side to the other. The break in action would be the perfect time to take them out. One of the reasons I leave mine in so long is that the incubator is small, so the eggs actually get rolled less with more chicks in there

 

[Critterwoman]

Thanks for the input. My friend swears by the pointed end up. We decided to experiment with these (one reason is the big end down my eggs wouldn't stay in the cradel.I had to keep pushing then down) and I had read big end up. My temp is ok, holding steady at 101-102. I will drop the humidity and hope is not too late.
I don't know if the others were alive, I didn't check. :-( Duh me! I left them in there 28 days and just expected they were dead. The one that did hatech did so on day 20.