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I am trying to figure out the same thing for myself. I have read they can stay in the incubator for two, at the max, three days after they hatch. I know some people quickly reach in and grab chicks to move to the brooder in between pips and they mist the inside of the incubator or do something to keep the humidity up so it can jump back after opening the lid. I haven't figured that one out yet. I am right now anxiously awaiting my zipper to go ahead and jump out of the shell and then I will start my countdown on three days at that point and make decisions as I move forward.
The last time I hatched I did bantams and LF together as I had set both kinds wanting to know the H requirements of both...(they were the same). After two days the conditions inside the bator had deteriorated that by the last night when a silkie chick was hatched at 3:00 a.m. and the Rhode Island Red chicks attacked it, I made up my mind that I was opening the lid when I got up in the morning regardless. I still had two pippers. When I got up, the last silkie chick had hatched - although I think the Red chicks seriously hurt it and it didn't live long - and I still had one Red chick pipped. When I opened the lid, I got the pipped egg out first and discovered the chick had died so my hatch had completed.
I plan to do the same thing this time. Today is officially day 21 for me and I could let it go to Tuesday. I will monitor the chicks very closely and make decisions as I go along. Just do not be too quick to jump in to help as once you do it kind of sets things in to motion to intervene a lot and sometimes the chicks do okay and sometimes they don't.
Sometimes they can come late on day 24 or I've heard of day 25. You can candle any that haven't pipped, if you can see inside the shell, and see if you see any movement, or you can leave them in until day 25 and then toss them. If there is no pipping going on that late into it, I would take the chicks that have hatched out and just leave the unpipped ones in for a while to make sure they are not going to pip.
 
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I am trying to figure out the same thing for myself. I have read they can stay in the incubator for two, at the max, three days after they hatch. I know some people quickly reach in and grab chicks to move to the brooder in between pips and they mist the inside of the incubator or do something to keep the humidity up so it can jump back after opening the lid. I haven't figured that one out yet. I am right now anxiously awaiting my zipper to go ahead and jump out of the shell and then I will start my countdown on three days at that point and make decisions as I move forward.
The last time I hatched I did bantams and LF together as I had set both kinds wanting to know the H requirements of both...(they were the same). After two days the conditions inside the bator had deteriorated that by the last night when a silkie chick was hatched at 3:00 a.m. and the Rhode Island Red chicks attacked it, I made up my mind that I was opening the lid when I got up in the morning regardless. I still had two pippers. When I got up, the last silkie chick had hatched - although I think the Red chicks seriously hurt it and it didn't live long - and I still had one Red chick pipped. When I opened the lid, I got the pipped egg out first and discovered the chick had died so my hatch had completed.
I plan to do the same thing this time. Today is officially day 21 for me and I could let it go to Tuesday. I will monitor the chicks very closely and make decisions as I go along. Just do not be too quick to jump in to help as once you do it kind of sets things in to motion to intervene a lot and sometimes the chicks do okay and sometimes they don't.
Sometimes they can come late on day 24 or I've heard of day 25. You can candle any that haven't pipped, if you can see inside the shell, and see if you see any movement, or you can leave them in until day 25 and then toss them. If there is no pipping going on that late into it, I would take the chicks that have hatched out and just leave the unpipped ones in for a while to make sure they are not going to pip.
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Thanks for the info but what do I keep the humidity at on hatch day
 
I know what you mean. I just hatched Rhode Island Red eggs and they were very dark and it was difficult to see in those. I wish I could help. Maybe a fancy candler light?
For now all I can offer is they will either hatch or not. I know that is absolutely no help.......sorry....
 
take a short lamp and an round oatmeal box punch a hole in the box place box over lamp with a 100 watt bulb in it...candle eggs
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I had some eggs that didn't do anything so I gently poked a hole in the top where the air sac should be. Then I gently pulled some shell back and poked a hole in the membrain. Every one that I did, was alive but still had a ways to go to develope. So far one has made it and is in the brooder and I have another one where I pulled the whole cap off, pulled the membrain back and have it sitting in an egg carton inits shell. It still has a ways to finish develping but its still alive. Every so often I take an eye dropper and give it some water. This will be intersting to see if I can nurture it to crawl out of the shell. I never thought the other one would as it laid curled up in a fetal position on the bottom of the bator, gasping for breathe. All day I watched it get stonger and stronger. I went out to work and when I came back it, it was standing up.

I now have some blue maran eggs in lockdown along with some mutts. Then next week I have some lavender Araucanas ready to go into lockdown. This is fun. I'm doing all this in my bedroom so I can keep a close eye on them. Besides its the only place where there isn't a big flucatation in temperature. If I have to open the bater while there is hatching going on, I get real hot water from the tap and pour it in my little giant. I have a basting tube with a flexible straw stuck in the end so I can put that down one of the holes and put the water I pour in,pretty much anywhere I want. With the hot tap water, I don't lose the temp much.
 
The eggs that didn't do anything, was there something wrong with them or did you put the wrong eggs in for lockdown?
I did that this time....I can see two in there that aren't supposed to be locked down until Wednesday. I'm wondering if they will make it!
 

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