HELP! Assist Hatching!!

[Clucklandia]

Maybe I am missing something but I don't understand why the egg was opened days before it was supposed to hatch? When the chicks get that big in the egg you often don't see any movement. It seems to me that there is way to much messing around with the eggs going on.

Well I was positive the egg was dead and I was getting rid of all the duds and quitters. I usually open up the dead eggs to see why they died. When I opened that one, I only opened the air sac area. That's when it moved. It was doing fine when I put it back in the Incubator. It kept moving and changing. Then something seemed strange and we think it's upside down! Now it's not moving.

 

[Chickenlover0714]

The one that you broke the end of the egg off, has busted thru the membrane??

this is my first time doing incubating. i'm all so involved with 4-h that's how i got my 10 hens i have now wen i got them they were chick's and now they are full grown hens i got my 6 eggs from someone else they are not from my flock.

 

[Clucklandia]

this is my first time doing incubating. i'm all so involved with 4-h that's how i got my 10 hens i have now wen i got them they were chick's and now they are full grown hens i got my 6 eggs from someone else they are not from my flock.

You should make a thread. That way you won't get confused with my replies, and yours. We are trying to figure out what's happening to my chick

 

[Chickenlover0714]

You should make a thread. That way you won't get confused with my replies, and yours. We are trying to figure out what's happening to my chick

how do you do a thread?

 

[Chickenlover0714]

i'm going to go eat something i'll be on later

 

[Clucklandia]

how do you do a thread?

In your inbox, there should be a welcome tutorial for BYC. Scroll through and click on the Make a Thread button

 

[bobbi-j]

@Clucklandia and @Chickenlover0714
For future reference, you both need to learn to leave the eggs alone until AT LEAST day 23. Lock them down on Day 18, and DO NOT touch them until after they have hatched, or for several days after hatch date to be sure they weren't delayed for some reason, or that the hatch date wasn't miscalculated. I usually candle at about 10 days and discard all the clears (development is pretty obvious at that point), but nothing else. It's hard to tell if they're still alive or not right before lockdown or hatching because they don't move around much in the shell at that point. I know it's hard, but you have to remember that chickens have been hatching for centuries without human intervention. Sometimes they die, but I believe that's Nature's way of keeping strong flocks. Survival of the fittest.

 

[Clucklandia]

@Clucklandia and @Chickenlover0714
For future reference, you both need to learn to leave the eggs alone until

I know! Like I said! I swore it was dead!

 

[Windus]

I know! Like I said! I swore it was dead!

At that stage of the game, even if I thought it might be dead, I would just leave it alone and wait and see. You really can't tell movement at that point.

 

[WVduckchick]

I know! Like I said! I swore it was dead!

Ok, enough criticism! What's done is done.

So today you are seeing no movement under the membrane?