Internal pip?

[why do birds]

We are hatching silkies sizzles and 1 sultan in a farm innovators 4400 incubator. We're in NY with very dry indoor conditions, but maintaining the incubator at about 55 %humidity and temp 98F to 99F, dropped it 1/2 degree on about day 19. Today is day 20, we have chirps and 1 pipping through the shell, a sizzle. My concern with raising the humidity was that about 1/2 of the air sacks weren't too large and I wanted to give these ones a shot at hatching too, didn't want to drown them. At this point humidity is at about 55 % with the 1 pipping. Is this ok? I read that silkies may need less humidity that LF somewhere. It's our first hatch. Humidity drops about 5 % in the incubator in about 5 hours. To add warm water I've been removing the red ventilation plugs and adding it to the center area with a straw. Do you recommend increasing the humidity? If so, when how many have pipped? These were shipped eggs, they came from 1100 miles away and the oldest egg was 9 days old by the time we got it. That's the sultan egg and it looked great on day 18. The post office did an excellent job getting these eggs to us! Our local postman is experienced with egg incubation so he's been kind to give advice! Ohhh sooo nervous! Can't wait to see what they look like. They are chirping inside the shells. I hope that some make it out ok. Any advice is greatly welcomed!
Good luck with your hatches. If we get anything, will post a pic!

 

[oinkpiggieoink]

Yea it is a downer.

 

[Ash123]

I have a bunch of chipmunks. They are weird looking for rir X silver laced wyandotte but they are cute!

 

[why do birds]

First sizzle out, another sizzle pipping, a silkie just starting to pip. Day 20, humidity at about 55 %, temp at about 98-99F.

 

[oinkpiggieoink]

Happy for you guys they are so adorable.

 

[Aphrael]

Happy for you guys they are so adorable.

Still nothing from your eggs? What day is it now?

 

[why do birds]

First Silkie to hatch, the other 2 that hatched were Sizzles. One in brooder box now as it was pecking its siblings eyeball.

 

[Ash123]

Have you candled the eggs again lately?

 

[why do birds]

Oinkpiggyoink how many eggs are you incubating? Did they travel before you got them? Our eggs traveled about 1100 miles in the cold so we really didn't think we'd have much success. Our postman was experienced with shipped hatching eggs and told me to only give them about 6 - 8 hours at room temperature, not the recommended 24. We had the incubator ready to go so I took his advice. So much can go wrong, waiting too long to put into the incubator, weather conditions, humidity levels at the last few days, etc. On day 18 we candled so that the air sack would be placed in the most upward fashion into a Styrofoam egg carton. We actually kept the humidity kind of low, 52-58 % days 19 and beyond because some air sacks were large, some were small. What kind of chicks were you trying to hatch? Since ours were bantams, silkies, we read somewhere that humidity too high will make them have a hard time hatching so we made a decision to keep it in the 50s range. IDK if this will work with other bird breeds. I feel aweful for you. It seems that some breeds are easier to incubate than others. Please lmk how you do! If this hatch failed it's not too late to troubleshoot and try again.

I feel so bad for you.

I've learned that this hatching egg thing can get very stressful!

I hope you get at least one!

 

[oinkpiggieoink]

Still nothing from your eggs? What day is it now?

Nothing. We decided it was not going to happen. We think we were about on day 23 at this point, We are going to try again though.

Oinkpiggyoink how many eggs are you incubating? Did they travel before you got them? Our eggs traveled about 1100 miles in the cold so we really didn't think we'd have much success. Our postman was experienced with shipped hatching eggs and told me to only give them about 6 - 8 hours at room temperature, not the recommended 24. We had the incubator ready to go so I took his advice. So much can go wrong, waiting too long to put into the incubator, weather conditions, humidity levels at the last few days, etc. On day 18 we candled so that the air sack would be placed in the most upward fashion into a Styrofoam egg carton. We actually kept the humidity kind of low, 52-58 % days 19 and beyond because some air sacks were large, some were small. What kind of chicks were you trying to hatch? Since ours were bantams, silkies, we read somewhere that humidity too high will make them have a hard time hatching so we made a decision to keep it in the 50s range. IDK if this will work with other bird breeds. I feel aweful for you. It seems that some breeds are easier to incubate than others. Please lmk how you do! If this hatch failed it's not too late to troubleshoot and try again.

I feel so bad for you.

I've learned that this hatching egg thing can get very stressful!

I hope you get at least one!

We had 2 out of 4 that we thought would hatch and no I did not order them. When my fiance's grandfather passed away we took the egg's from some of his chickens(buff orpingtons)so that we could have some chick's from him to remember him with(also my mother loves chickens). Now that we watched them develop and saw their heartbeats we just really want some baby chicks though. I did not get any and decided to do an eggtopsy before I got rid of them. I could not tell what happened though. It looked like their yolk sac got busted open or something, like maybe one of the babies accidentally hit the bator while playing in the house,

but I honestly dont know what would have caused it.

I am going to use this as a learning experience though and hopefully get it right next time