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Naliez
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- May 7, 2015
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You should stay in your comfort level and if that's letting them be, then that's what you should do. I don't let mine go over 24 hours w/o at least widening the pip hole and checking position to make sure they aren't positioned where they can't finish. My second hatch I had a malepositioned chick. When I widend the pip hole around 18 hours in I was met with little toes waving at me from atop the beak...lol I knew then she wasn't getting out w/o help. She's almost a year old now and one of my best layers.
I'm afraid that I won't know what I'm looking at. I opened the one that had definitely drowned already, and I couldn't tell what belonged where until I opened the inner membrane. IF I do peek... Do I chip away a little shell at the crack and poke open the white membrane? They're all close to the air cell rather than the middle. Also, today is day 20; they pipped really late on day 19. I was hearing random peeps throughout the day, but I don't know by whom.