Setting Eggs Saturday April 20... anyone else?

[5 Acre Rooster]

Just an update I am posted on the May hatch thread also. I set my eggs the 19th and have 4 babies 8 pips alot of chirps and rollie pollies. GL all on the hatches, my 1st that went full term w/o anearly chick.
Better get to bed before I go check bator again and lose myself for hours cheering em on. LOL nite peeps and pippers.

 

[minichic]

Three pipped since last night. Others appear to have internally pipped. The waiting game continues...

 

[EggieRowe]

Three pipped since last night. Others appear to have internally pipped. The waiting game continues...

How do you know they've internally pipped?

 

[minichic]

How do you know they've internally pipped?

I candled them and saw where the chicks had pipped into the airsac.

 

[EggieRowe]

I ha

I candled them and saw where the chicks had pipped into the airsac.

I'm thinking about candling the four straggler eggs if I don't see a pip by tonight. Wish I had done something about the Dominique egg before I went to bed. It was part of a group of eggs that had pipped by 9 am, but all the others hatched by 11:30pm yesterday.

 

[minichic]

I've got three out so far

 

[UrbanMamaHen]

I've got three out so far

Congrats! I have nothing yet still. Losing hope.

 

[UrbanMamaHen]

Since my last post, I have one that has piped, zipped, and is almost out, all in just 90 minutes. Yay!

 

[Harleyx2]

How long should I leave them in the incubator after they hatch? One hatched at 5 am and is rolling eggs around some.

 

[EggieRowe]

I just took my chicks out - it had been 30 hrs since the first hatched. I pulled the two eggs that I noted had odd air cells at the lockdown candle. One was 'sloshy' so obviously a dud and the other had pipped to the bottom and I think drowned. I opened it and there was huge blood clot around the pip/beak area. So just two left in the incubator. If the last two hatch, then I'll be at 72%. If they don't, that's 57% for my first try - not too shabby. Next time I'll try traditional humidity. Dry hatching didn't seem to be amazingly successful.