HELP ME!!! CHICKS HATCHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[luvchikies]

yes it is very strange but strange things happen you know

. Here is the thread, there it is everything that has happened during incubation. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=118679

 

[Suellyn]

Just for comparison purposes:
It EASILY took my eggs from 15 to 17 hours to go from pip to zip.
It took anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours to go from zip to hatch.
I did "dry method" incubation, about 37% humid days 1-18,
then 54% to 64% humid duuring hatch (goal was 56%).
Had a really good hatch, with healthy chickies peepin away at me as I type this.

They are *NOT* saying "Help me, Help me", they are saying "I can DO IT, I can DO IT!!!"...

 

[luvchikies]

well I was reading nifty's thread and it said if it had a pip and he wasn't peeping as much as he was to not be afraid to intervene. I saw that he was having some problems too so it was time to help. He could berly breathe until I got him out he stayed there like if it was dead but he was breathing then in a couple of hours he was already runnig so THERE IS NO PROBLEM!

 

[98 gt]

By accident you say...??

 

[Suellyn]

Sorry I'm confused.. How many eggs in 'bator, how many pips? How many have hatched? If you opened 'bator, how did your temp & humidity do??

I know I almost had muliple MULTIPLE heart attacks

when the pips would rest... no peeping, no rocking, for HOURS at a time!! am kinda embarrassed to admit, but I actually got a wire & gave a couple of them a poke/tap (without opening bator, I threaded it thru the vent hole!

) to see if it would stimulate a peep, rocking, ANYTHING, and NOPE... was sure they were DEAD

BUT I was still within an acceptable timeframe (had only been 12 or 14 hours since pip), and did not intervene, and sure enough, every single one of them popped out in their own sweet time!!

Good luck... it's really really hard, I know, but keep the other pips safe & humid!