Last update: they ALL did it!!! 
Update: Three have hatched, thank goodness. Humidity skyrocketed to 90%! I used a pipe cleaner through the vents to clean the condensation off the lid and cracked the lid a few seconds at a time to release water so the remaining chicks in shell can breathe. Other eggs appear to be chewing and are sitting tight after being knocked about by their siblings.
Update: one is trilling and chattering and sounding insistently like it wants out right now! I don't know what to do.
Could they ALL be a little too dry and stuck due to egg quality or lower humidity during first part of incubation??
Hello!
Thank you for reading. So this is my second time hatching and I hatched earlier in the spring and was afraid that even though I kept humidity dutifully at 50% in my Nurture Right 360 my chicks weren't going to have a big enough air sac were going to drown. They hatched very well and now my neighbor has asked me to incubate. I went drier, around 35%, and the air cell looked a lot more comparable to what it was "supposed" to look like. These eggs are of different quality than mine but I've got ten pips and one is chirping insistently, but even though they're working at it they don't seem to be zipping. My question is even though I'm keeping humidity between 65 and 70% for hatch, is it possible they're too sticky to spin and get out? My neighbor says he ALWAYS has to pick them out of their shells
and I am of the understanding that when incubation is done properly that is generally not needed.
If they lost too much moisture can they be too stuck to spin around? My chicks hatched out much more quickly after pipping than these are. I spied the first pip at about ten this morning (Sunday) and that one is making progress but slowly, all the rest started from noon into early evening. I know I need to wait up to 24 hours for them to zip and I am trying super hard to not get involved, but the one who's peeping insistently sounds straight up mad. Like it's stuck. Hopefully that's just its temperament to be impatient??
Any advice is appreciated!
Update: Three have hatched, thank goodness. Humidity skyrocketed to 90%! I used a pipe cleaner through the vents to clean the condensation off the lid and cracked the lid a few seconds at a time to release water so the remaining chicks in shell can breathe. Other eggs appear to be chewing and are sitting tight after being knocked about by their siblings.
Update: one is trilling and chattering and sounding insistently like it wants out right now! I don't know what to do.
Could they ALL be a little too dry and stuck due to egg quality or lower humidity during first part of incubation??Hello!
Thank you for reading. So this is my second time hatching and I hatched earlier in the spring and was afraid that even though I kept humidity dutifully at 50% in my Nurture Right 360 my chicks weren't going to have a big enough air sac were going to drown. They hatched very well and now my neighbor has asked me to incubate. I went drier, around 35%, and the air cell looked a lot more comparable to what it was "supposed" to look like. These eggs are of different quality than mine but I've got ten pips and one is chirping insistently, but even though they're working at it they don't seem to be zipping. My question is even though I'm keeping humidity between 65 and 70% for hatch, is it possible they're too sticky to spin and get out? My neighbor says he ALWAYS has to pick them out of their shells
and I am of the understanding that when incubation is done properly that is generally not needed.If they lost too much moisture can they be too stuck to spin around? My chicks hatched out much more quickly after pipping than these are. I spied the first pip at about ten this morning (Sunday) and that one is making progress but slowly, all the rest started from noon into early evening. I know I need to wait up to 24 hours for them to zip and I am trying super hard to not get involved, but the one who's peeping insistently sounds straight up mad. Like it's stuck. Hopefully that's just its temperament to be impatient??
Any advice is appreciated!
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