HELP DAY 21 AND NO HATCHING!

I reviewed the article and I am a little nervous about it. How am I supposed to open up the air cell without opening the membrane right behind it?
I am not talking about the inner, the outer membrane??
 
I reviewed the article and I am a little nervous about it. How am I supposed to open up the air cell without opening the membrane right behind it?
I am not talking about the inner, the outer membrane??
You don't have to worry that. When you go into the air cell you going into the "empty" cavity of egg. The membrane you would worry about (the inner membrane) will be lower surrounding the chick.
 
Its Thursday and that means hatch day i got alot of peps but i can see small chunks of shell under my eggs i believe a few may be peping facing the floor my? Is will they still be able to hatch or do i need to turn them real fast its day 21 locked down on day 18i and add a lil warm water yesterday before any peps so it has not been opened since pls help thanks
 
I do have a question regarding silkies. I found all 3 silkies fully formed and dead after the hatch date. They were in wrong position trying to get out pointy end down. I did my due diligence with keeping them large side up rotating them turning etc.. Is this a problem with this breed?
 
I do have a question regarding silkies. I found all 3 silkies fully formed and dead after the hatch date. They were in wrong position trying to get out pointy end down. I did my due diligence with keeping them large side up rotating them turning etc.. Is this a problem with this breed?
The first hatch I had silkies in (2 of them) I had absolutely no problem whatsoever. Of course I didn't know what I had either...lol I had a barnyard mix of eggs from my sisters. This hatch I bought eggs from a local gal and wanted as many silkie eggs as I could get out of her silkie pen (because she has a show girl roo and I really want show girls). She was only able to get three in a week as we were still suffering from winter weather and they didn't want to lay. I had one hatch out only 4-5 hours after pipping which was way too early as it had not finished absorbing the yolk sac (and it ruptured either before or during hatch) and the veining was still prominent and he was attatched to very bloody membrane/cord. Needless to say, he didn't make it. The other two were my eggs that didn't hatch. Between day 18 and 20 the already good sized air cells had doubled and they were badly shrink wrapped. They were the only chicks I had problem with. I chalked it up to the quality of the layers seeing as how they weren't laying well and it was still cold. Since then, I've seen more than one person having problems with silkies and I myself am beginning to wonder what's going on.

No pepin fine about middle of eggs but facing down to floor
As long as they are pipped above the level of egg that touches the floor they should be alright because they can get air. However if it makes you feel better to be able to see the pip and your humidity is up in a safe zone (at least above 65%) then by all means flip them back over quickly. Have a wet sponge or paper towel handy just incase you need to slip it in there to restore the humidity lost.
 
Ok update so far i have 4 new babys and there is a few still looking at the wire but it dose not seem to be a problem there is 5 looking at wire and there starting the zipping i let them be to see how they would manage so far no problems temp is steady humidity steady thanks for the help i got 30to something to go ill update again later
 
Thanks for the info on the silkies. All of my silkies were shrink wrapped as well. One had fluid in the air cell, so I will blame it on that, however the others ?? I wanted a silkie so bad, and now I am wondering if silkies are just really difficult to incubate.
It's easy to order a chick, yet so satisfying to hatch one yourself!!
 

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