I need help and fast!

[GitaBooks]

I hope so. I'm pretty sure it is still alive, because when I candled it, I saw it move a bit and I saw blood veins. Will this be a problem for the chick when it tries to hatch?

The only reason it would be a problem is because the egg may be too dry, which will make the chick unable to break out.

 

[CherriesBrood]

Hmm... Do you know what the percentage risk for this happening is?

 

[GitaBooks]

Hmm... Do you know what the percentage risk for this happening is?

Its actually pretty high, I've had it happen with eggs under hens even. But the good news is that if they can't hatch after 24 hours, then you can carefully pick away the shell to get to its beak and once you help open it a bit it may be able to finish on its own.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Ok, well it looks like I need help again. I just got done candling the eggs for lockdown, and I noticed that one of their air cells is almost twice the size as the others are! I'm quite not sure what to do, I followed all of the lockdown steps and they are all buttoned down, but the egg that has the bigger air cell is pointing upwards, whereas the other two look normal.

Hmm... Do you know what the percentage risk for this happening is?

Some eggs are more porous or thinned shelled than others and will loose moisture at quicker rate than the other eggs. That's why when you are incubating you adjust humidity according the the majority of the eggs and not the minority because we can not provide optimal conditions for every egg set because there are too many factors. It's why 100% hatch rates are not the norm.

I've had various sized air cells and have had them hatch perfectly fine, however if it has lost significantly more moisture then yes, it runs a risk of shrink wrapping. I use sponges in my bator at lockdown and if I have any that I think are borderline large I always place them closer to the wet sponges at lockdown. I can't say wether it helps or not, but it makes me feel better having them closer to the source of humidity.

 

[CherriesBrood]

Thank you Amy

Update!

So I woke up this morning to a big surprise! One of the normal eggs has pipped! And I can here it chirping inside! I'm very mad at it for doing it this early I had stuffed planned. It's not supposed to pip until tomorrow, so the only reason it might be hatching early is because I stored it two days before putting it in the incubator, but I really have no clue! Here's a pic.

 

[GitaBooks]

Eggs can take over 24 hours to fully hatch, so if you have anything planned today you can get that done.

Congrats on the babies!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Thank you Amy

Update!

So I woke up this morning to a big surprise! One of the normal eggs has pipped! And I can here it chirping inside! I'm very mad at it for doing it this early I had stuffed planned. It's not supposed to pip until tomorrow, so the only reason it might be hatching early is because I stored it two days before putting it in the incubator, but I really have no clue! Here's a pic.

Unless it had a day of being incubated before storing or the temps during storage were high, that shouldn't be a factor. Usually early pippers is a sign of the bator temp being sightly high for the incubation. I struggle with an lg and if I can keep it above 99 and below 102 I'm happy, but this usually results in my hatches starting at day 19 with pippers. Last hatch my first pipper pipped mid way into day 18, but did not hatch until 19, I believe it was something like 21 hours.

Congrats!! It's so exciting. and pipped right where it needed to!

Eggs can take over 24 hours to fully hatch, so if you have anything planned today you can get that done.

Congrats on the babies!

Now that only works when you want it to hurry up. You know this will be the one that only takes a few hours, because she wasn't planning on it hatching yet. lol


On anoter note:

When I get a pipper, to motivate them I play this video periodically through the day and when they start to zip I play it over and over to keep them going and usually my zippers zip in 15 minutes or so once they start:

Good luck!

 

[GitaBooks]

The videos an awesome idea! I peep to them myself sometimes, and they love responding to me.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

The videos an awesome idea! I peep to them myself sometimes, and they love responding to me.

I find, honestly, that the video is more motivating to the hatchers than the live chicks in the bator. I don't know if it's the added tone or pitch to the peeping, but as soon as I play the video almost always you can see the bursts of energy from the chicks. Especially during the zip.

 

[CherriesBrood]

 
The videos an awesome idea! I peep to them myself sometimes, and they love responding to me.

I find, honestly, that the video is more motivating to the hatchers than the live chicks in the bator. I don't know if it's the added tone or pitch to the peeping, but as soon as I play the video almost always you can see the bursts of energy from the chicks. Especially during the zip.

Awesome thanks for the video! I think I'm going to try it now, because now I have another pip!! The one with the bigger air cell still has no pip. But I can here the two chirping a lot! In my last hatches they all chirped to each other and they all got motivated! The ones to hatch first stayed and snuggled by the unhatched eggs, it was soooo cute

And also, I usually keep the temp at 99.5, I have for all my batches, and plus I collect all the eggs the same day that they were laid. So I'm kind of at a lost because they are hatching so early!