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thanks guys for answering that question

i infact asked this question a few weeks ago in another thread but got no reply

i read also somewhere that shipped eggs to be kept upright but it never mentioned lockdown period and now i know

cheers
 
I am not 100% sure it works, but it does not seem to hurt at all
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. Plus it saves me the stress of watching "chicken football" with the unhatched eggs.

As for food and water, they can stay in the incubator up to 48 hours I believe without food or water. I think most leave them in until they are all dried off and then take them out if there are no eggs that are pipping.

Okay so update, woke up today to 2 more out of the shell. 1 was from and egg I knew had pipped but the other I never even noticed. Also there are two more that are pipping
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So 3 out and 2 on the way, must have been my low temps that delayed the hatch.
 
Okay another one is out, plus two more pips, so a total of 4 of my shipped Trisha eggs are out and 3 have pips. Plus 1 of mine is out and 1 has a pip.
 
Congrats, I am at 11 right now (9 shipped 2 of my own) and one is half way zipped. However, it looks like it just stopped mid zip and no movement, will check on him in 30 mins if no change has been made I might have to help. The humidity dropped to 65 so I am worried that is it.
 
So after no progress for 3 hours, I finally decided to help the little guy. Normally I won't do that, however like I said, overnight even though other eggs were hatching, the humidity dropped to 65%. Also, I know it takes a long time from pip to zip, I have seen 12 hours, but once the zip starts I have never seen it take more than 1 hour. So I got it out. wrapped it in a warm wet rag and used tweezers to gentle pull off some of the shell, sure enough it was shrink wrapped, so I just broke the shell open a little around the shrink wrapped areas, put him back in the incubator and 45 secs it pushed itself out. I then waited 20 mins, pulled it back out and gave it a warm bath to get all the "shrink wrap" off of it. Seems to be doing great now
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So I will leave it in for a few more hours then pull the whole bunch out and get some pics and post them. Pretty sure they are all done, 10 of my Trisha shipped eggs and 2 of my own, so 12 out of 20, not great but not bad considered my temp issues.
 
RachaelS said:
So after no progress for 3 hours, I finally decided to help the little guy. Normally I won't do that, however like I said, overnight even though other eggs were hatching, the humidity dropped to 65%. Also, I know it takes a long time from pip to zip, I have seen 12 hours, but once the zip starts I have never seen it take more than 1 hour. So I got it out. wrapped it in a warm wet rag and used tweezers to gentle pull off some of the shell, sure enough it was shrink wrapped, so I just broke the shell open a little around the shrink wrapped areas, put him back in the incubator and 45 secs it pushed itself out. I then waited 20 mins, pulled it back out and gave it a warm bath to get all the "shrink wrap" off of it. Seems to be doing great now
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So I will leave it in for a few more hours then pull the whole bunch out and get some pics and post them. Pretty sure they are all done, 10 of my Trisha shipped eggs and 2 of my own, so 12 out of 20, not great but not bad considered my temp issues.
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well done rachael

yes in that case i agree zipping happens fast my record for my chick is about 10 mins to zip all round and even push out

so you took teh right step to help it after 3 hours

just glad you got in ther ebefore it suffocated



now to fly over to your house and steal em all hehe
 

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