Late Bloomers?

[MelissaBA]

Yesterday I had 10 of my 16 eggs in my incubator hatch. Today I had one. The thing that I am confused about is one of the eggs that I had candled and knew there was a chick in there has not hatched. I candled again today to see what was going on. There is something definitely in there, but I didn't see any movement. There is also no pipping. Is it more than likely something has happened to this chick?

 

[Flytieguy]

I personaly would give it another day to give them a chance. I have had some hatch up to 2 days late. Sometimes they will die in the shell just before hatching, I don't know why. My last batch that hatched had 3 eggs out of 40 eggs that died in the shell just before they hatched.

Good luck! Hope they all hatch!

 

[MelissaBA]

Is it normal to not see the chick moving at this point?

 

[Flytieguy]

No. If they are alive they should be moving around. If you candle them you should be able to see them move around and hear them pipping.

 

[MelissaBA]

Did not see any movement or hear anything. So I took tweezers and pipped them myself and saw they were gone. I opened the egg up and one of them had a really large green growth on it. What was that?