Should I help this chick hatch or it is ok?

[yinepu]

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if you're really worried you can candle them to check for internal pips.. normally I wouldn't recommend doing that because you really do want to keep the hatcher closed during lockdown.. but with all the humidity issues I don't see where it's going to hurt much at this point in time... just don't leave the top off while you candle

 

[evers310]

sounds good! i was just coming in here to ask you if you thought it would be ok for me to check them out lol


what do i look for specifically?

 

[yinepu]

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you'll need to concentrate on the air cell.. see if there is any movement in it..
I found this to give you a better idea.. now these are duck eggs.. but should still help

any fluid in the air cell would indicate possible drowning (which I don't think you will have a problem with) and if everything in the egg sloshes.. throw it out!.. lol

 

[evers310]

2 rockers & a zipper!

once this one hatches out i will candle the others he should join us in this world in about 2 more minutes so gotta run!

 

[evers310]

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... make that 1 new baby chick and (i think...) 4 rockers!!

 

[yinepu]

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... make that 1 new baby chick and (i think...) 4 rockers!!

keep this up and you'll have a flock in no time!

 

[evers310]

i already have a flock lol hubby wants me to sell some of them off :-(

well i tried a light brown egg and one of my blue ones and couldnt see a thing in either

 

[yinepu]

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You need a brighter light! lol

ok.. sit on your hands for now..

have any more pipped?.. or are they still peeping and rocking?

 

[evers310]

The lil peeper was also my zipper and its now a fluffy happy baby

My 4 or so rockers haven't pipped yet.. atleast externally.. there were 3 or 4 others rocking yesterday but not today :-(

I just got some sad news though... the friend of the family that took my last set of eggs to hatch them out for me (I had incubated them and took them there the day they were due to hatch a few weeks ago...) basically said there were 6 that pipped one little hole but died in the shell..

i know they were trying to help but dang... if I had just not worried so much and kept them here with me I would have been able to save every single one of them cause thats what I just did with 6 of the 9 I'm taking care of right now... grrrrrrr!!!!!!! makes me so sick

i wish they would have called me or told me before now! I wouldve stayed up all hours of the night to work with them too if I had just known!

... after all that strugglin' you can rest in peace little ones...

 

[killer2316]

i might be having to help one also found one pipped in incubator put it and other in other bator to hatch when i woke up this morning still has not zipped