Setting on Good Friday

[kathyinmo]

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Leave them in the bator until they are ALL hatched, and they are all fluffy. Do not take them out wet.

 

[Hope119]

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Leave them in the bator until they are ALL hatched, and they are all fluffy. Do not take them out wet.

well, some people here do take them out earlier https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=323475
the person I rent the incubator from has also always taken them out as soon as they fluff (I have just spoken with her), so we might do same too.

 

[Engteacher]

I was feeling left out, but then I woke up this morning to a pip and a second pip greeted me when I came home for lunch.

 

[regina1994]

YAY!!!! Woke up to chirpin and peepin...in the afternoon 1 pip and later out..and several rockin. Question though the one out is not standing yet and has a piece of shell attached to its tummy like and umbilical cord and from what I can tell it's tummy is a bit see through looking????What's up with that is it ok???

 

[kathyinmo]

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Leave them in the bator until they are ALL hatched, and they are all fluffy. Do not take them out wet.

well, some people here do take them out earlier https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=323475
the person I rent the incubator from has also always taken them out as soon as they fluff (I have just spoken with her), so we might do same too.

If you read those posts a little closely, you will see that the majority advise against it. Believe me, I have done it, and paid the price for doing so. You allow the humidity to escape, and the unhatched ones will not make it. Of course, some do. I just do not recommend it. Good luck whatever you do.
Maybe this will interest you ...
http://msucares.com/poultry/reproductions/poultry_pipped.html

Pipped eggs that do not hatch

If chick embryos develop to the pipping stage, or at first shell cracking at hatching, they are normally healthy enough to hatch unless some incubator adjustment prevents it from happening. The problem is usually caused by either 1) poor ventilation or 2) improper humidity.

The air exchange requirement within an incubator is greatest during the last day of incubation. The chick embryo's oxygen requirement continually increases during development and especially when breathing using the respiratory system just before hatching. The vent openings are frequently restricted at this time in an attempt to boost incubator humidity. Instead of helping the chick hatch, the chick is suffocated from lack of ventilation. Never decrease ventilation openings at hatching in an attempt to increase humidity. Increase humidity by other methods. If any vent adjustments are made, they should be opened more.

Another reason for mortality during hatching is improper humidity adjustment. The deaths can be produced from too much humidity during the entire incubation period or from too little humidity during the hatching period.

The desired egg weight loss during incubation caused by water evaporation is about 12 percent. If humidity during incubation is kept too high, adequate water evaporation from the egg is prevented. The chick can drown in the water remaining in the shell at hatching. A dried coating around the chick's nostrils and beak indicates that drowning was likely. Attention to maintaining proper incubation humidity during incubation will reduce the potential for this problem at hatching time.

If the humidity is allowed to decrease after the chick pips the shell, the membranes within the shell can dry-out and stick to the chick. This prevents the chick from turning inside the shell and stops the hatching process. The chick eventually dies. If the membranes around the shell opening appear dried and shrunken, the cause is probably low humidity during hatching. This condition can occur quickly (within 1 or 2 minutes) when the incubator is opened to remove or assist other chicks that are hatching. When hatching begins and proper incubator conditions are attained, the incubator should never be opened until after all chicks are hatched and ready for placement in the brooder.

 

[mtcookie]

Score is. One hatched 6 pipped.

 

[goldnchocolate]

I have 4 chicks out!!! Three of my own EE mixes and one of Peachick's Solid Blue Marans eggs. Wow....once they start to break out you have to be quick with the camera.

These 2 hatched this morning and it looks like one of them is sitting down relaxing....

This is a chick that I won in an auction from Peachick (all of hers made it to lockdown

). When this one came out it was loudly peeping and the first chick to hatch this morning quickly came over to see what was going on...LOL!

 

[kathyinmo]

Here are pictures of my 4 new additions! Rare, beautiful Icelandics!
Last one out ...

 

[Starryneedsmorebators]

One of my fav chicks had to be put down he was weak from the start and was gasping for are and suffering . So hubby took care of it

Starry

 

[goldnchocolate]

Awwwww....that's so sad!