Helping Chicks Hatch. Please do!

[BaabyBoo1998]

Okay, so three of my eggs are due to hatch today, and because of previous hatches, I opened them up to see if they were alive. The first one I opened was an early embryo, so he is gone.

The second and third, however, were shrink wrapped. I touched them to see if they were alive, and they were.

I carefully wet a q-tip and wet the shrink-wrapped paper-like -thing (sorry, i don't know what it's called).

Is there anything else I can do in order to save my chicks?

Thanks!

 

[SallysCrazyFarm]

You definitely shouldn't have opened them up. Especially on the day they are due to hatch. That reduces their chance of hatching quite a bit. How big are the holes? Did you go through the air cell? Do you see any veins in the membrane? When I was young long, long ago, and started hatching eggs, I made the same mistakes. Try to sit tight and don't do that again

I'll try to help.

 

[kidcody]

I agree with sallyscrazyfarm after you go into lock down day 18, you should not open the incubator for 5 days. I know it is real hard not to. It is our nature to want to help! If you have to open the incubator (try not to) you can take a spray bottle with warm water and lightly mist the eggs. But only do this as a last resort. Of course we want to save them all!

 

[BaabyBoo1998]

You definitely shouldn't have opened them up. Especially on the day they are due to hatch. That reduces their chance of hatching quite a bit. How big are the holes? Did you go through the air cell? Do you see any veins in the membrane? When I was young long, long ago, and started hatching eggs, I made the same mistakes. Try to sit tight and don't do that again

I'll try to help.

Thank you for your help.

I just opened them up to see how they were doing since from past experienced have been all but failures, and they were shrink wrapped. I thought this wasn't normal, so I tried to go forward with trying to help them out. But since I opened them up, is there a chance they might die ? i keep wetting the membrane, is this safe? because they are shrink wrapped, and the veins are too thick. Please help me. I am a not-very-experienced hatcher.

 

[BaabyBoo1998]

I agree with sallyscrazyfarm after you go into lock down day 18, you should not open the incubator for 5 days. I know it is real hard not to. It is our nature to want to help! If you have to open the incubator (try not to) you can take a spray bottle with warm water and lightly mist the eggs. But only do this as a last resort. Of course we want to save them all!

Oh yes. It was us that I wanted to see how they were doing since all of the other times I've tried to incubate have all been a failure and I want to see how to prevent them from dying.It is very hard to wait because I have a feeling they might die, and I could've helped them. But I will try next time!

 

[BaabyBoo1998]

Well, overall, my chick hatched!
My mom & I helped him/her get out, and now we are waiting for him/her to get up and get dry.