Help!! I’m on day 20

[Jessica2021]

Hello everyone I am new here and first time incubating eggs and I’m on day 20 as of today. I did not count they say I put them in as day one I started the next day. Temp has been between 99.5 and 100. Day 18 I got it ready to lockdown and put something down that was soft and allowed water to get threw to still get humidity correct. This is a pic from now with temp and humidity level. not sure what I’m doing wrong. chicks are alive and still no pipping. I candles earlier to make sure. I also added a wet rag to help the humidity come up because this morning it was only at 62%. Please help I’m worried!

 

[JaeG]

They are fine - just be patient. Hatching is a long slow process but the steps are very important for the wellbeing of the chicks. They will first pip internally and sit at that stage for 12-24 hours, then they'll externally pip and sit at that stage for around 24 hours as they absorb the remains of the yolk, and only then are they ready to unzip and hatch which usually takes about one hour.

21 days is just an average and interfering unnecessarily (too soon) leads to dead chicks. This part is always torture - waiting to see the little cuties, but it'll all be worth it.

 

[RosemaryDuck]

Hello everyone I am new here and first time incubating eggs and I’m on day 20 as of today. I did not count they say I put them in as day one I started the next day. Temp has been between 99.5 and 100. Day 18 I got it ready to lockdown and put something down that was soft and allowed water to get threw to still get humidity correct. This is a pic from now with temp and humidity level. not sure what I’m doing wrong. chicks are alive and still no pipping. I candles earlier to make sure. I also added a wet rag to help the humidity come up because this morning it was only at 62%. Please help I’m worried!

Patience is key when hatching. I know how frustrating it is to wait, but with incubation that's the name of the game! Some chicks are very 'on time' and hatch day 21 or late day 21-22. Don't stress! Just keep your temps and humidity steady and sit back.

 

[Jessica2021]

They are fine - just be patient. Hatching is a long slow process but the steps are very important for the wellbeing of the chicks. They will first pip internally and sit at that stage for 12-24 hours, then they'll externally pip and sit at that stage for around 24 hours as they absorb the remains of the yolk, and only then are they ready to unzip and hatch which usually takes about one hour.

21 days is just an average and interfering unnecessarily (too soon) leads to dead chicks. This part is always torture - waiting to see the little cuties, but it'll all be worth it.

Thank you for the info this is all nee to me

 

[Jessica2021]

Patience is key when hatching. I know how frustrating it is to wait, but with incubation that's the name of the game! Some chicks are very 'on time' and hatch day 21 or late day 21-22. Don't stress! Just keep your temps and humidity steady and sit back.

It’s hard but I’m trying

 

[JaeG]

Thank you for the info this is all nee to me

I'd like to say it gets easier, and it kinda does the more you hatch because you know the process, but it's still torture waiting for them to hatch.

 

[jeapa]

I am going through the same thing right now. I had an egg last night that had a big pip hole and I could watch the chick moving its beak and chirping away, but no zipping. It stayed like that from around 4 pm yesterday and hatched sometime in the night.

The egg that first pipped on Sunday evening didn’t hatch until sometime during the night also, so more than 24 hours and 2 chicks went by...lol... I am learning patience is definitely needed because I was beginning to think something was wrong with that chick taking so long to go from pip to hatched.

 

[Jessica2021]

They are fine - just be patient. Hatching is a long slow process but the steps are very important for the wellbeing of the chicks. They will first pip internally and sit at that stage for 12-24 hours, then they'll externally pip and sit at that stage for around 24 hours as they absorb the remains of the yolk, and only then are they ready to unzip and hatch which usually takes about one hour.

21 days is just an average and interfering unnecessarily (too soon) leads to dead chicks. This part is always torture - waiting to see the little cuties, but it'll all be worth it.

Today still nothing no moving no chirping no pipping nothing I’m even talking to them begging for them to come out and play

 

[RosemaryDuck]

Today still nothing no moving no chirping no pipping nothing I’m even talking to them begging for them to come out and play

It might sound a bit ridiculous, but you can play youtube videos of chicks peeping near the incubator for a few minutes every once and a while. I did it for a late hatch once and it gets them excited because they think other chicks are hatching.