New chick questions!

[new_chickees]

Hello! We had eight chicken eggs and have had 4 hatch successfully, not sure the type of chicken (received from farmer friend). The remaining 4 are in the incubator at 21 days today. 2 have pipped and two have not, but the ones that pipped seem to have passed on, they have had no progress in 2 days (48 hours). We removed chicks quickly and put in brooder in humidified room and I’m not sure what to do about the two that have not pipped. Is there a way to see if they are viable? I believe I had humidity too high days 10-18 (around 65-70%) and I have heard they can drown when hatching because of that

A friend mentioned a “water test” for the remaining two but I’m not sure how to go about that. I’m not sure if removing them to candle at this point would be harmful?

Thanks for any insight!

 

[Ms Clucky]

Have you picked them up and tapped on it to see if you can hear them?

 

[new_chickees]

No I didn’t want to interfere unless I knew for sure I wasn’t going to mess up their hatching process (total newbie)

Would it be okay to open incubator at check them even though temp will drop?

 

[Ms Clucky]

As long as you do it fast. We did to get babies that have hatched already.

 

[new_chickees]

ONE OF THE ONES THE PIPPED 2 DAYS AGO IS TWEETING!

what should i do??

I don’t know if she can get out

 

[Ms Clucky]

I called mine out of the shell by doing humming sounds in the little hole. If that don't work, Take her/him out and maybe help a little bit by making the hole bigger and then put it back in the incubator. Hope this helps. Keep me posted?

 

[new_chickees]

I humidified the bathroom (where the incubator is) and opened top, then coo’d at the egg and she tweeted back but I think can’t get through membrane. I’m terrified of killing her so I peeled back a little more shell and put her back. Humidity never dropped so hopefully she’ll make her late appearance within a couple hours.

The others made no noise or movement when tapping on shell.. is there definitive test for viability for those guys?

They all looked good when we candled them a week ago.

 

[Ms Clucky]

Maybe candle them again and see if there is movement.

 

[Alaskan]

I humidified the bathroom (where the incubator is) and opened top, then coo’d at the egg and she tweeted back but I think can’t get through membrane. I’m terrified of killing her so I peeled back a little more shell and put her back. Humidity never dropped so hopefully she’ll make her late appearance within a couple hours.

The others made no noise or movement when tapping on shell.. is there definitive test for viability for those guys?

They all looked good when we candled them a week ago.

There are a couple of great assisted hatch articles on this site.

Pull a couple of them up and read through them.

It sounds to me as if the peeping one will need some help.

As to the other three.... at this point I would use a clean toothpick and pick off a tiny bit of shell and just look at the chicks.... see if they are alive or not.

 

[new_chickees]

well three of the four have already passed but that one is still trying. there was blood around pipped hole after I tried to “help” and my heart just sunk sunk sunk. :’( I watched the videos and read the posts but I’m not messing with that anymore, I’m too afraid of hurting him. After waiting another few hours I peeled half his shell off hoping he could get through easier than breaking shell. humidity never got below 80% in the room and he’s tweeting. About 48 hours exactly since he first pipped

one image is before i peeled back and one is in the incubator after peeling away half shell