Set eggs February 12th! Hatch a long with me!

[NYRIR]

My one that was piped by 7:10am has made no progress. I tapped the shell and it cheeped. Another has a pip hole that was bloody? Suggestions??

Personally, I just wait and see what happens. I do help them out sometimes if they are already pipped and starting to zip and then nothing happens for a long time.

ETA I have just started lockdown!

 

[newduckie]

Last year I had 5 swan eggs that were cheering up a storm and I could tell that they were slowing down. I didn't think it was worth letting them die just waiting on them. The mother had sat on them for all but about the last week. So I knew the humidity was probably screwed up. From the pond to the bator....when they seemed to be weakening, I brought them out. It took FOREVER and they were pretty weak for several days. I may have waited to long to help them, not sure. They had no yolk sacks and no bleeding to speak of. The membrane was soooo tough that I had to "pip" it with a knife. They did get into the air sac but there was another membrane that was like leather. I just knew I was going to hurt them chipping with a knife on the shell. It was incredibly hard shell. Anyway, long story short.. They were all fine and grew up to be bbeautiful birds.

 

[Squawkbox]

Okay I seriously need help over here!!! UGH!

My 4 chicks that are wrapped in their paper towels are doing fine but the veins are taking EONS to dry..why so long?? I really do not want to risk opening them and hitting a vein.

4 eggs still have not internally pipped, I can see them push against the air sack (not 100% it is their beak pushing) yet nothing. Can someone please answer this question if you know.. Can an egg that has not internally or externally pipped be shrink wrapped?
What if the remaining eggs can't pip because they are shrink wrapped...noooooo

then that means I have to help them...but what if their beak is not pointed toward the air sack (2/4 so far pipped the side) and I cannot find their beak, they run out of air and die or in my quest to find and free their beak they get cold and/or I hit a vein?!?!?

I seriously am going to have a mental breakdown, I am so tired and stressed and haven't eaten barely a thing today.

 

[NYRIR]

Okay I seriously need help over here!!! UGH!

My 4 chicks that are wrapped in their paper towels are doing fine but the veins are taking EONS to dry..why so long?? I really do not want to risk opening them and hitting a vein.

4 eggs still have not internally pipped, I can see them push against the air sack (not 100% it is their beak pushing) yet nothing. Can someone please answer this question if you know.. Can an egg that has not internally or externally pipped be shrink wrapped?
What if the remaining eggs can't pip because they are shrink wrapped...noooooo

then that means I have to help them...but what if their beak is not pointed toward the air sack (2/4 so far pipped the side) and I cannot find their beak, they run out of air and die or in my quest to find and free their beak they get cold and/or I hit a vein?!?!?

I seriously am going to have a mental breakdown, I am so tired and stressed and haven't eaten barely a thing today.

I wish I could give you a professional answer, but I can't.
Can you get a pic of the ones on the paper towels?
What day are you on?

 

[NYRIR]

I also would think they COULD be shrink wrapped either way if the bator is opened up enough times.BUT I am not 100% sure. Everyone says NOT to open the bator after lockdown for this reason, and if you do, you need to run the shower and bring the bator into the bathroom to open it.
Ok ETA; I know that doesn't help now...so I would suggest you wait a little longer if you are on day 20-21...for the eggs not pipped. Do Not open the bator!

 

[naturespace]

Hatched
4 Marraduna Basques (EO),
2 Welsumers,
one that hatched from a blue egg, but will probably be an Olive Egger.

Pipped
2 Wellie
2 BBS Orpington
3 Olive Eggers

Waiting to pip
6 EOs
And a bunch of the others.

 

[Squawkbox]

Here are some pics of the 4. The back 2 have been opened the longest, there arent really veins showing where it is open, but there is where the shell is on.. Do I take all the shell off so that they are just in the inner and outer membrane?

Also, now it is day 20 for the 4 open ones as well as 3 other eggs (I think one is dead) and the other 2 are just day 19.

Ok so if it is possible for them to be shrink wrapped if they have not internally or externally pipped, then why do they not get shrink wrapped at any other point of incubation?

 

[NYRIR]

I also would think they COULD be shrink wrapped either way if the bator is opened up enough times.BUT I am not 100% sure. Everyone says NOT to open the bator after lockdown for this reason, and if you do, you need to run the shower and bring the bator into the bathroom to open it.
Ok ETA; I know that doesn't help now...so I would suggest you wait a little longer if you are on day 20-21...for the eggs not pipped. Do Not open the bator!

Hatched
4 Marraduna Basques (EO),
2 Welsumers,
one that hatched from a blue egg, but will probably be an Olive Egger.

Pipped
2 Wellie
2 BBS Orpington
3 Olive Eggers

Waiting to pip
6 EOs
And a bunch of the others.

Aww...cute! What rare chicks you have! I had to look those up

Very nice

 

[speckledhen]

That picture there should never happen. Squawkbox, you are interfering way too much, I'm telling you. You need to jack up humidity on Day 18, then STAY AWAY FROM THE BATOR. Please listen to me. Even broody hens do not help their chicks out of the eggs. Every time you open the bator, you jeopardize the chicks by allowing moisture out.


Day 19 is nowhere near early enough to be concerned and you shouldn't be handling eggs or candling eggs after Day 18. You're interfering with nature's way of doing things.

 

[NYRIR]

Here are some pics of the 4. The back 2 have been opened the longest, there arent really veins showing where it is open, but there is where the shell is on.. Do I take all the shell off so that they are just in the inner and outer membrane?

Also, now it is day 20 for the 4 open ones as well as 3 other eggs (I think one is dead) and the other 2 are just day 19.

Ok so if it is possible for them to be shrink wrapped if they have not internally or externally pipped, then why do they not get shrink wrapped at any other point of incubation?

Very clear pics....
Are they peeping? Are they trying to get out?
I honestly would not open the incubator again. I don't know for sure that they can be shrink wrapped before internal pipping but it would seem possible to me. During the earlier stages of incubation they are surrounded by liquid...but you still have to have the humidity at 50%...(some use dry incubation...so I don't know about that). The shell has pores that allow moisture to escape, so now with these open they are at even greater risk, i would assume...
I know that's why you wrapped with paper towels but they are all early....which is why i would NOT mess with them so long as they still seem healthy.

ETA Listen to Speckledhen....she has a lot of experience!

@Speckledhen...so glad you logged on!!! I was not 100% on what to do, but wanted to help....what do you jack your humidity up to for lockdown?