Lockdown starts today! Who's gonna hatch with me? UPDATE PICS!

[joletabey]

Pics!! Pics!!! You are my vicarious hatching experience...... let's go, chickies!!!

 

[sekinkead]

I now have 6 out!!! They are doing great! I have 9 more that are pipped, 1 just needs to pop the top off. I am worried about my first egg that pipped on Tuesday night. It really hasn't made a lot of progress but I can see it moving through the hole that it has made. Should I help by peeling off a little bit of shell or should I wait?

 

[brandibaby23]

I haven't had any pips yet

. But this morning 1 out of my 4 that are hatching peeped at me from inside

but no pips no movement,

Glad to hear everyone elses are going along nicely

 

[Germaine_11.20]

sekinkead, don't open the incubator until you are ready to end the hatch. The chicks get stuck in the membrane if you do. When you are ready to open the bator then you can help it out and put it back in to rest and fluff out.

Joletabey you are doing a great job of cheering us on. I have 5 out this morning and 5 pips! What a beautiful sight.

Brandibaby, once you hear that peeping then the rest seem to say, "oh is it time already" you don't have to wait much longer!!!

Kathy??????????????????

Mahonri, my camera battery needs charging, but I will get pics. I have to clean. I have company coming for dinner. 17 what fun!

 

[sekinkead]

I have been opening the bator to take out the fluffy ones. Is that ok? there isn't enough room to leave them all in there. Crap, now I feel bad, they may not hatch because of me.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Six out!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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Actually yes it is bad. But you can still help them out. You need to figure out when the first one hatched and count about 12 hours. If no one else has made itout or there are no new pips then you can start helping them out.

If you have NEW pips then they can probably make it out on their own. But the ones that haven't progressed in over 12 hours will need help.

When you are ready to help them out let us know and we can help you through it. I have a million chores today but I will keep looking.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Oh, and I have done the same thing too, so don't feel bad. It is one of those things that happens. They are probably fine in there, they will just need some help.

 

[brandibaby23]

why do they get stuck if you open the bator???? Always learning so would like to know what is the reason behind it. because I have read that a lot about not opening the bator. So you wait until all of them are hatched, because I won't have room either there are alot of eggs in mine and a bowl of water what if they get in it and drowed???? oh god now i'm stressed again lol

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Brandibaby, you will need to keep an eye on that bowl of water. Hopefully they will tip it over rather than climb in and drown. If they do climb in then you have to decide what to do. Open the incubator or not. Do you have any pips yet? If not then you may be able to sneak in there and grab that bowl out.
I can't say if any will get stuck or not because of it though. I don't know. If you do go in there, then have a spray bottle full of warm water and spray in there. Not directly on the eggs but toward the top. And then close it quick!
If you have pips then those might get stuck.
The reason is they have two membranes beneath the shell. One tough one and one thin soft one. If the incubator gets opened then the humidity in there can evaporate so quickly that the membranes dry up. Even a little can cause trouble.
That is why the humidity is at a certain level, to soften up the membranes without making them gooey. Too high humidity at hatch makes the soft thin membrane turn into goo which then super glues to the chick. I had one chick only have a tiny spot glued to them during hatch and I had to help it out.

Anybody else want to help out here?