Help please

[JenHarmon]

I know I have had lots of questions and things lately, I apologize. I appreciate all the help and advice, yall have been wonderful. I have 2 eggs left in the incubator that i had taken from my hen who had too many. They should have hatched on the 16th or around there. They are silkies. We kept seeing movements and growth so we kept incubating, tossing out (after eggtopsies) ones that didnt make it. We are pretty hands on over here. One of the two eggs looked dead. No movement, no internal pip, no nothing. Candled yesterday couple times and today. So, we carefully opened the air cell area (just in case). No movement at all even after gently touching it through the white membrane. Then suddenly it looks like it is "breathing"....slight movement. So we put it immediately back in the incubator bit I couldn't tell where the beak is and the membrane is NOT dry. So do I just closely watch or what? There are blood vessels too close for me to open the membrane and if it iisn't quiite ready i don't want to do anything else.....I could have sworn it was dead.

 

[Hybridchucks]

@chickens really ?

 

[gimmie birdies]

If you poke a dead chick in its shell it may flex and look like it is moving too.

 

[MillersFarm]

Leave it in the shell for now and don't take the lid off. Now I don't have very good incubating experience but @chickens really Knows a lot of stuff that might be helpful for you.

 

[chickens really]

Are your sure it's alive they swish sort of in the egg if dead..No peeping?

 

[chickens really]

@WVduckchick

 

[chickens really]

I'm not a Chicken hatcher only Ducks....

 

[WVduckchick]

If you poke a dead chick in its shell it may flex and look like it is moving too.

x2 I've thought they were alive too, just from it sloshing around.

@JenHarmon, can you get a pic as it is now? If it were me, I'd pull it out and actually feel for sure. The beak should feel very solid and hard, everything else should be soft.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Oh, right if there is a lot of water the water moves as you candle.

 

[JenHarmon]

I will get a pic when I get back home, had to run out and take care of horses and get more chicken feed. No, im not sure it is alive...I personally think it is not, but it kinda freaked me out when I thought it was "breathing". I didnt feel a beak or see one...it looks like it is backwards maybe. We put neosporin on the membrane so we could see veins and not let it dry out just in case. Had one chick night before last internally pip and then it died. I did an eggtopsy on it and it looked weird. Like fluid in head/neck area (it was showgirl chick).