Pipping PANIC!!! Help!!!!

[LovinMyPeeps]

OMG! I went to move my eggs into lockdown and when I went to candle 2 of them they were PIPPING! I have NO idea why so early I had them all in a wine fridge until I put them in the bator all at the same time. I need to adjust the humidity! I need more humidity! OMG should the pip be down? Up? On the side?? OMG I'm having a MELTDOWN!!!! Humidity in the bator is only at like 35% because I was still balancing the POS little giant that I ended up with... now I want to move them back into the hovabator but they should be in lockdown.... omg help before I blow a gasket

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

Sonew? Speckledhen??? anyone??? I don't want to lose these babies in the last minute and this is my first hatch....

 

[canada-goose]

Take a deep breath. Calm down. If they live, they live. If they die, you feel guilty for the rest of your life. Try to get the temperature and humidity right and RELAX.

 

[TriciaHowe]

Relax

It will be ok.... Don't raise your humidity a huge amount. I would add a very little bit of water (maybe to get it to about 50%) and then leave it alone. They will be ok.

I dry hatch and never really get my humidity about 50% even while pipping. When they start to hatch and the 1st ones start to dry your humidity should go up a lot....

 

[NanaKat]

The pips look fine. Your babies will begin zipping the shell soon.

Can you hear any peeping sounds when you cheep at them? That's how I encourage mine.

Humidity is fine. Don't open the lockdown...that releases more humidity.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

I cant get this darn LG regulated though! 101 then 97 then 100 then 98 OMG it's a pieces of CRAP! Yes they are peeping. I can hear atleast 1 peeping anyway. I am so paranoid it's my first hatch. I hate this new bator I bought specifically for lockdown because of egg turners and staggered hatches! I'm going to be up all night. Hopefully someone can set me up with intravenous coffee tomorrow!

 

[bigstack]

You ve to get the humidity up regardless of moving or not. I have never dry hatched. I have always been told not too. If some one knows dry hatching works. I'll take their word for it. I have no experience withit.
My only guess would be IF you have to move them, to move the bators quickly into the bathroom. Turn on the hot shower add a room heater if yu have one. Get it hot and steamy!!!!
Hotter, wetter= Better. then whn all steamy and so hot you can't breath. Open the bators and move the eggs. I would turn pip to the side. They prolly roll around in bator anyway. Plug bators in while in bathroom if you can. then once moved return bator to regular place and resume normal life. At least this is what I wuld do. BUT I am by no means an expert. If this doesn't help atleastits a bump.

Good Luck and God Bless!!!

 

[halo]

Relax, it will be fine. As someone said, dont bump humidity too high; it will do more harm than good. ONce the first one hatches, the humidity will stabilize from the wet chicks.

I also miscounted one time; when I checked in incubator to take some eggs out on day 18 to move to the hatcher, I found 2 chicks staring back at me. The humidity had been pretty low the whole time.

If they're gonna hatch, they'll hatch in spite of our goof ups. Dont worry too much about the temp fluctuating, it will stabilize. Those temps are still well within the range.

Go take a pill and relax...my pill of choice is M&Ms.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

OK and after eating the whole bag? I think icecream... icecream always makes good stress food.... I am so attached to these eggs already it's killing me.

 

[halo]

Get a really big bag.