Hatching now! Does this look normal?

nurse_turtle

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8 Years
May 28, 2011
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Notice the beak toward the upper right of the hole. The color inside seems different and there are some "spit bubbles". I'm extremely impatient but am genuinely concerned/obsessed with this chick being ok in there. Please advise
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What is your humidity?? It looks vey wet to me, but of course I only had one hatch and it didn't look like that??
Ayda
 
what type of chick is this going to be? how long has the egg been pipped? is this the due date? are your temp and hum. steady and solid at what they should for hatching? i hatch a whole lot of chicks. right now i have my bators setup for hatching every five days. you egg does not look normal, however if there is movement and peeping and the chick seems lively and everything above is correct, your chick will be fine and hatch out just fine more than likely. hopefully someone else has more info for you but right now i would like more info from you to be able to give MY input any more. be patient and dont open that incubator!
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GL hope you see your chicks soon
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The chick hatched with some help, but his crop was very full and soft. The fluid of spit bubbles was brown/green colored. Shortly after hatch, he expired. The hatch for him was 2 days early. Today there are 8 chicks in the bator, healthy and spry. I'm thinking my "early bird" had a defect in his GI system causing his death. For the last 3 days, Temp is 99.5 to 99.9 F and humidity is 65%. This is my 6th hatch ever and I didn't think he looked normal in there.

Thank you for your input and advise.
 
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yeah i have seen that with my late hatchers before but never with early ones if they are sticky and if you dont wipe off those bubbles they will dry around the birds beak and suffocate it or drown it
 

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