Is this a pip?

[HuffleClaw]

By day 21-22 egg should be 'full' and pretty dark...tho you might still see veins.
Either your days are off, your temps were low.

There are good pics in here showing candling stages.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/development-of-a-chicken-embryo-day-by-day.72537/

Days are fine. My temp stayed at 99-100 degrees F. Humidity 35-49% days 1-18 and after that it was 69+%. Thank you for the article!

 

[aart]

Were your therms and hygrometer tested/calibrated?
Do you have prior hatching experience?
Hope the little buggers pip/zip/pop for you!

 

[HuffleClaw]

Were your therms and hygrometer tested/calibrated?
Do you have prior hatching experience?
Hope the little buggers pip/zip/pop for you!

Yes I calibrated my hygrometer and my thermometer. I have hatch one time last year and had a 100% hatch (this is only my second hatch). Thank you and I hope they hatch too!!

 

[oregonkat]

Like aart said, when you candle the eggs they should look very dark and almost full. Don't give up hope yet, they can take up to 25 days. If there is still movement in the eggs then probably your temps were lower than you thought. Did the egg you candled look very dark even though you could see veins still?

 

[aart]

Yes I calibrated my hygrometer and my thermometer.

How did you do that?
Here's how I do it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...incubator-thermometers-and-hygrometers.73634/

 

[HuffleClaw]

Like aart said, when you candle the eggs they should look very dark and almost full. Don't give up hope yet, they can take up to 25 days. If there is still movement in the eggs then probably your temps were lower than you thought. Did the egg you candled look very dark even though you could see veins still?

This is the egg that I thought had pipped (which didn’t)

And this is the one that still had veining

 

[HuffleClaw]

No veining in the first one but lots in the second egg.

 

[aart]

Don't give up hope yet, they can take up to 25 days.

Ditto Dat^^^ I'd just hang in there and see how they do.

 

[HuffleClaw]

How did you do that?
Here's how I do it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...incubator-thermometers-and-hygrometers.73634/

I used the ice method. (Not the MOST accurate) but it worked just fine the first time.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Ditto Dat^^^ I'd just hang in there and see how they do.

Oh yes I’m not going to take them out until day 25-26 if they don’t hatch soon. I want them to have a chance!