First time hatchers hatch A-long!

[Weeg]

Wow, I'm late to reply! I stopped getting notifications from this thread for some reason. I hope your eggs are doing alright @Artichoke Lover!

I have 6 days left for the first batch to hatch, yes! I'm so excited!

 

[Artichoke Lover]

@Weeg they seem to be doing fine. The air cells have grown some and the chicks are starting to move into hatching position. I’ll do a full candle tomorrow and toss any with blood rings and then lock them down.

 

[spryng]

Wow, I'm late to reply! I stopped getting notifications from this thread for some reason. I hope your eggs are doing alright @Artichoke Lover!

I have 6 days left for the first batch to hatch, yes! I'm so excited!

It does that to me too! No idea why so I just have to come check every now and then lol

 

[spryng]

So all 17 chicks are happy in the brooder and doing well but that last chick may need some assistance, it's legs are splayed. I thought it was because it was alone in the incubator with a slick floor but it's still splayed in the brooder too. It can still make it to the water and food but not very gracefully so I'm trying to decide if I need to intervene or not. But other than that, they all look great!

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Everyone went into lockdown this morning and they all still look good. I started to mark a few as questionable because I saw what I thought might be decomposing blood veins until I saw them move! It was tiny chick feet!

 

[Chickenwingwing]

Everyone went into lockdown this morning and they all still look good. I started to mark a few as questionable because I saw what I thought might be decomposing blood veins until I saw them move! It was tiny chick feet!

So excited !!!

 

[Kellyjenny]

Everyone went into lockdown this morning and they all still look good. I started to mark a few as questionable because I saw what I thought might be decomposing blood veins until I saw them move! It was tiny chick feet!

How do you sign up I'm what to do new and I don't know do you think you can help me out. First time hach.

 

[Weeg]

How do you sign up I'm what to do new and I don't know do you think you can help me out. First time hach.

Welcome! No need to sign up on this thread, everyone is welcome.
Would you mind telling us a bit more about what's going on? What kind of eggs? What day are they on? Was incubator are you using? What is your setup, (humidity, extra thermometers, etc.) Basically tell us all about what you have going on, and what the problem is. I hope we can help!

 

[Weeg]

Lockdown on Monday! I bought a second incubator for the staggered hatch, hoping all goes well! Crossing fingers!

 

[Weeg]

Alright, I just read an article on assisting the hatch since the air cells are damaged. Now I'm super worried about shrink wrapping. My humidity hasn't been perfect the whole time, and I think its been more commonly low then to high. Most of the time between 4-48%, but a few times I would wake up and find it at 38%. The last few days have been really hard getting it high though! Its been between 38 and 45% for about 3 days? Is that going to cause shrink wrapping? I'm super concerned this being my first incubation.
Also, how do you detect think wrapping before everything goes to worst? The chick having trouble zipping, pipping, or hatching all together? Any suggestions? Am I overthinking this? Thanks guys!
Lockdown tomorrow, so I'm super nervous!