PLEASE REPLY AND HELP ME!

[Bryce227]

My eggs are on the 21 day today. I only have 2 eggs in the incubator. Both eggs are cracked and you can hear the baby’s peeping on the inside of the egg. Problem is, I put a dry towel under the eggs so they would have a solid surface to hatch on. And I didn’t think about how it would drop the humidity. So I had the humidity at 70% and now it’s dropped down to 45 for the past hour. I just now got it back up to 70%. My question is, do you all think the Chicks will be okay being that the humidity dropped to 45% for an hour mid-hatch?

 

[My Pretty Pekins]

My eggs are on the 21 day today. I only have 2 eggs in the incubator. Both eggs are cracked and you can hear the baby’s peeping on the inside of the egg. Problem is, I put a dry towel under the eggs so they would have a solid surface to hatch on. And I didn’t think about how it would drop the humidity. So I had the humidity at 70% and now it’s dropped down to 45 for the past hour. I just now got it back up to 70%. My question is, do you all think the Chicks will be okay being that the humidity dropped to 45% for an hour mid-hatch?

Were they pipped when the humidity dropped?

 

[nuthatched]

Does you have any shelf liner instead?

 

[Mvan42]

Why the moist towl? Are they still peeping, wiggling. When did they pip? Pictures

 

[NatJ]

My eggs are on the 21 day today. I only have 2 eggs in the incubator. Both eggs are cracked and you can hear the baby’s peeping on the inside of the egg. Problem is, I put a dry towel under the eggs so they would have a solid surface to hatch on. And I didn’t think about how it would drop the humidity. So I had the humidity at 70% and now it’s dropped down to 45 for the past hour. I just now got it back up to 70%. My question is, do you all think the Chicks will be okay being that the humidity dropped to 45% for an hour mid-hatch?

They might be fine. You will know sometime in the next few days.

Even if they are not fine, there's really nothing more to do right now--you already fixed the humidity, and it's too soon to tell whether they will need help.

If you were to "help" them out of the shell right now, they would almost certainly have problems, because they have probably not finished absorbing the yolk sac yet--they finish that after they start making holes in the egg.

So just be patient and see. I'm guessing they will be fine, but I can't be certain because nothing is ever certain with chickens.

 

[Bryce227]

Y

Were they pipped when the humidity dropped?

Yes

 

[cmom]

You can always mist the eggs with some warm water. That will also increase the humidity quickly. Good luck...

 

[My Pretty Pekins]

Y

Yes

Yeah... okay, that does make things more difficult, because the membrane might cling to the chicks. Issue is that if you try and help, you'll probably make things worse. I think the best policy for now is patience.

 

[Mvan42]

You can always mist the eggs with some warm water. That will also increase the humidity quickly. Good luck...

I would not do this. It can cause the membrane if any gets on it to dry out, and cause the chick to get cold.

 

[cmom]

I do it and have never had a problem. I hatch out hundreds of chicks every year.