First time hatcher questions! One out 12 in!

[ilikethedesert]

I'd love any advice or encouragement! Today is day 21. I have 11 Silkie eggs and 4 of my neighbors Dutch variety. All were candled and looked viable lat week. One pipped around 8am and hatched

around 6pm. It's now 11:34 and this little one, (who has alot of energy) is still wet and has some gooey stuff on it's back. There was alot more but I think it was absorbed. There is a white stringy looking thing on it's back. It's getting closer to standing up, but not there yet. So cute. So my questions:

How long does it take a silkie to dry? It's 100.4 degrees and 61% humidity.
I see no other pips. Are they all doomed??????
Should I go to bed and hope for something in the am. I totally won't sleep. Feel like I did when my human babies were all overdue.
Seeing as they were all in the same incubator, I thought they would hatch in the same day. i guess Mother Nature has other plans....

any help?
Steph

 

[debilorrah]

No they are not doomed. I often wait an extra two days for them to hatch. Silkies to me seem like they look like that for the better part of a week. Their feathers are not the normal down.

 

[ilikethedesert]

Thank you!!! Alright. Off to try to sleep!

 

[debilorrah]

Quote:

You will be fine. Let them be. You will probably wake up to chicks.

 

[ilikethedesert]

7:23 am and nothing more yet. The first one had what looked like it could be a yolk sack so I'm hoping it was an early hatcher and the rest will come out today!

 

[teresa-78]

come on little chickies

 

[lovin my birds]

Hope your babies hatch. Today is day 20 for me on my second hatch ever. First hatch only one hatched and then died the next day.

I dont know what went wrong. But I am not giving up hope.

Good Luck!