Incubation fail 2.0 🤦🏻‍♀️ Advice please!

[JDCampbell73]

If you didn’t see my last post- I have only 1 viable egg set to hatch on Thursday/Friday.

when beginning our lockdown/clean out of the other eggs my daughter wanted to crack them open to see if any had been growing and if so to what stage. But when we did the inside membrane was sooo TOUGH! It has me really nervous that the one currently living chick might not be able to get through to pip the shell! I have gotten the humidity up to 86% currently.
anyone have any advice?!
am I just freaking out? Or is that tough membrane because they weren’t viable in the first place?

 

[chickenhugger69712]

Hello! I would say to wait for another few days before trying to crack the eggs open.

 

[JDCampbell73]

Hello! I would say to wait for another few days before trying to crack the eggs open.

Oh I’m not trying to crack the one viable egg. The ones we opened last night were very obviously not advancing while this little guy is. We could see it moving inside the shell.

 

[Rose Quartz]

If you didn’t see my last post- I have only 1 viable egg set to hatch on Thursday/Friday.

when beginning our lockdown/clean out of the other eggs my daughter wanted to crack them open to see if any had been growing and if so to what stage. But when we did the inside membrane was sooo TOUGH! It has me really nervous that the one currently living chick might not be able to get through to pip the shell! I have gotten the humidity up to 86% currently.
anyone have any advice?!
am I just freaking out? Or is that tough membrane because they weren’t viable in the first place?

Ahhh, bring your humidity down below 70%

Too high of humidity is not good. If you get to the end of day 21 with no pip, and there's still movement, you can make a safety hole in the top of the air cell.

 

[Rose Quartz]

Sorry I'll explain.

Over 70% humidity, when the egg has pipped, makes the remaining albumen turn in to a thick goopy glue (I've had way too many of these and didn't know what I was doing wrong). Chickie will get stuck and you'll have to help it out.

 

[JDCampbell73]

Sorry I'll explain.

Over 70% humidity, when the egg has pipped, makes the remaining albumen turn in to a thick goopy glue (I've had way too many of these and didn't know what I was doing wrong). Chickie will get stuck and you'll have to help it out.

Thanks!! I guess I had misunderstood what I read somewhere else.