Setting eggs, anyone want to join me? Hatch-Along

[howfunkyisurchicken]

My eggs are peeping! Hopefully I get some hatchers today I had a couple of nights where the temp in the bator dipped a little, so I guess it delayed them a bit. Shew!

AND, one of my hens has gone broody. I think I'm going to let her worry about the next batch of eggs. After all the worry with this go 'round, I need a break
Nikki

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I have a PIP!!!

How's everyone else doing, any peeps yet?
Nikki

 

[DURR]

Nope none yet. I think these guys are too weak to make it out. :/

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Nope none yet.

I think these guys are too weak to make it out.

Hoping!

Candled my egg that was due last week and, now I even doubt it was even developing! It just looked like a bunch of yoke floating all over the place.

I candled my 14 eggs and am so happy to find that 9 are developing!!

They were almost completely "black", so they are due sometime next week!!!

 

[DURR]

Hrm anyone have a bator they aren't using!? I need a new one. :|

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

You could always pick up a cheapie LG. That's what I use, it always gives me something!

I would help them at this point, but that's just me.
Nikki

 

[DURR]

If they haven't pipped would it work?

 

[hokankai]

I follow this guide: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching

WHEN should I help?

You can tell the chick is having trouble if it gets stuck for several hours in the MIDDLE of the unzipping stage, either pointlessly banging its beak against the hole without making further openings in the shell or mostly unzipped but unable to kick free.

A chick is troubled if it's pipped but hasn't started unzipping AFTER 24 hours, or if the bit of exposed membrane around the pipping hole is starting to turn tan and dry.

If the pipping marks look erratic or irregular, the chick may also be in trouble.
Anything past 40 hours there is a very real possibility that the chick will never get out of the egg without assistance.

A chick that has pipped the wrong end of the egg is also in trouble, and sometimes may be assisted as well.

AGAIN I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH….
It takes at LEAST 24-36 hrs for the complete absorption of the yolk sack!

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If the majority of your chicks have hatched and its past day 21(for Chicken eggs), it's time to....
CANDLE & Tap!
Candle and look for an internal pip. Pencil mark the air cell.



Below is what an internal pip it looks like.
The beak is thrust through the inner membrane into the air cell.



Tap with your fingernail GENTLY on the air cell and hold to your ear, Can you hear a peep?




**IF** YOU DO NOT HAVE AN INTERNAL PIP AND YOU CAN’T HEAR CHIRPING and but you do SEE MOVEMENT, place that egg BACK in the incubator and WAIT, this EGG DOES NOT need assisting at this point!

**IF** however YOU DO NOT HAVE AN INTERNAL PIP AND YOU CAN’T HEAR CHIRPING and YOU DO NOT see MOVEMENT please proceed to The Float Test ~ Checking Egg Viability. Give Eggs A Full 24 Hrs Overdue Before Float Testing ONLY AFTER CANDLING and NO Internal pips and NO internal MOVEMENT or CHIRPING! This procedure takes very little equipment Or time to do and Is Easy To Perform. If your egg is still viable, place back in the bator and wait! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/383525/float-testing-checking-egg-viability-for-late-or-overdue-hatching

Now its time to assist if…
Your Beyond THE WAITING PERIOD and you’ve followed ALL steps above!
Assist if YOU HAVE AN INTERNAL PIP AND you hear CHIRPING, OR YOU HEAR CHIRPING and No PIP......
AND you clearly understand the hatching process,
AND you are CERTAIN its time to intervene,
AND you have READ THROUGH this ENTIRE ARTICLE,
AND you understand THE STEPS to ASSIST,
AND you HAVE PATIENCE,
If NOT, DO NOT TOUCH THAT EGG!

 

[DURR]

Thanks, I'll just give it more time. He's still moving and rocking hopefully he'll be out by friday that'll be day 25 what do I do if he still hasn't pipped or anything and is still moving by day 26???? This is stressful.

 

[hokankai]

Then by then you'd have gone past the waiting period and you can see if you can help it out. If it hasn't pipped internally by then I'd highly doubt it was meant to hatch in the first place...