Hands on hatching and help

[ScottyGill]

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I'm ready but I won't even think about it unless it's still in same place tomorrow morning. A lot can happen. Happy with my humidity level constancy situation now, trying to relax and get on with my day
Just be ready and best of luck!

 

[ScottyGill]

I’ve managed to keep a consistent humidity of 66% using a tiny bottle cap. I’ve just filled it up so it should be good for the night. I’m a little worried as humidity did go down last night and I don’t know when this egg pipped. I saw it about 9am this morning and it has made not much progress but is cheeping and moving. I candles the other 3. One I think is looking like it’s not grown enough. The other 2 have internally pipped. Who knows I may wake up to some chicks but I know I’ve done enough. I did give them air holes just to be safe! It felt the right thing to do.

 

[aart]

I’ve managed to keep a consistent humidity of 66% using a tiny bottle cap.

Keep in mind that humidity is about the size of the surface area of water rather than volume.

I saw it about 9am this morning and it has made not much progress but is cheeping and moving.

It can take awhile.

Who knows I may wake up to some chicks

 

[Rob_Clyburn]

No help that I can offer (I'm a newbie) but I wanted to wish you luck on your hatch. My first will be around Aug 23rd. I actually wound up with some online eggs arriving 3 days later... So I'm predicting an extended hatch window.

 

[aart]

My first will be around Aug 23rd.

@Rob_Clyburn ..... Don't you have some hatching now?

I've got 20+ that have hatched during 48 hrs

 

[Rob_Clyburn]

@aart, no my other thread was a hypothetical question for before the 23rd. I wanted opinions in advance

 

[aart]

@aart, no my other thread was a hypothetical question for before the 23rd. I wanted opinions in advance

 

[ScottyGill]

I woke up to a chick and humidity right up so I have put some foil over the water cap and it’s back down. Another has pipped but it’s nowhere near the saddle air cell mark I made, it’s peeping. What should I do, does this mean it’s malpositioned. I really need your help on this??

 

[ScottyGill]

The humidity had gone right up so I took quick chance to whip it out, wrap in warm damp tissue and I gently peeled away some shell. I hit a Teeny spot of blood but it quickly stopped so I put it back in for now. It’s fighting hard. I also moistened the membrane with coconut oil. My plan is to check back in a couple of hours and maybe help a little more. I just feel with the massive saddle it’s maybe not got so much room to move! As no one around I’m going with my gut here!!

 

[aart]

Sometimes they don't pip thru the air cell('normal' 'internal' pip followed by an external pip), I call that a 'side pip'.
When that happens it can take twice as long for them to hatch because it's like an internal pip coupled with an external pip.
Humidity will soar when one hatches, nothing that needs to be messed with as it will come back down on it's own.