I need help with this hatch: over 48 hours since pip. **Pic added.*

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No, sorry. This is the only one I assisted. This is the one that had already pipped on its own.

Oh sorry I hope it will continue to strengthen, what about the other one ?

Well, I bumped humidity up to 70 and let it be for last night. I could hear it starting to peck more frequently. I'm hoping when I check again today that it's pipped. But we'll see. I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong to where this happened. Don't know if it's all completely a humidity issue considering the other 6 didn't even break through the air cell.
 
I've been fearing having to do that. I don't know if I can handle it. I know I'm being "girly" on that one. (I'm normally not a very girly person..) I think I just might cry! But I also feel it's necessary..

I don't know what to do..

My biggest fear is that I open them and they are alive and I just killed them. Wait, there is a float test I've read about. Do you know anything about how reliable that is?
 
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I could never figure candling out. When I had runners hatching and mom left the nest after 4 days I found something on BYC about putting the remaining eggs in warm water for a short time to see if they were viable. I tried that and several of them started rocking, 2 did nothing. I took the ones out and dried them off and they hatched. May be worth a shot.
 
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Thanks! I saw a really good thread on here not too long ago about a woman who did that and it sunk, so she opened it and it was alive. How awful would that be! Right now little Beaker is starting to get active and vocal. Yeah!!
 
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Thanks! I saw a really good thread on here not too long ago about a woman who did that and it sunk, so she opened it and it was alive. How awful would that be! Right now little Beaker is starting to get active and vocal. Yeah!!

Great news, I did a float test on some over due chicken eggs and they all floated but when i cracked them open they weren't even fertile. So don't know how reliable that is either. Maybe give them a few more days, I opened some chicken eggs after mama took chicks off the nest and found they had started to develop but quit somwhere along the way. It's a judgement call for you because you are the one there looking at them.
 
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Thanks! I saw a really good thread on here not too long ago about a woman who did that and it sunk, so she opened it and it was alive. How awful would that be! Right now little Beaker is starting to get active and vocal. Yeah!!

Great news, I did a float test on some over due chicken eggs and they all floated but when i cracked them open they weren't even fertile. So don't know how reliable that is either. Maybe give them a few more days, I opened some chicken eggs after mama took chicks off the nest and found they had started to develop but quit somwhere along the way. It's a judgement call for you because you are the one there looking at them.

And I don't want to lose my breakfast. Ugh. (But I really want to know.)
 
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Great news, I did a float test on some over due chicken eggs and they all floated but when i cracked them open they weren't even fertile. So don't know how reliable that is either. Maybe give them a few more days, I opened some chicken eggs after mama took chicks off the nest and found they had started to develop but quit somwhere along the way. It's a judgement call for you because you are the one there looking at them.

And I don't want to lose my breakfast. Ugh. (But I really want to know.)

I bet you can do it, I already had a hole dug so when i opened the eggs I just put them right into the hole and covered it up.
 

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