Starting a hatch September 21....hatch along?

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I almost forgot! I have a question about the air sac in one of my eggs (from my girls). Normally the air sac is in the fat end of the egg, but, I've got one that has the air sac on the long side of the egg (not at either end). The chick is developing fine, but, I'm wondering if it is possible for it to hatch ok or if I'm just setting myself up for a bummer hatch (for that egg) by letting it continue. I'm going to let it keep developing either way, I just want to prepare myself if it's going to need help or not going to be good (I can't kill a living baby!).
 
I would leave it be, I have had eggs like that in the past, once in a while it will require help but sometimes they can hatch on their own. If it manages to make an external pip, wait until after 24 hours to help. If you notice that it has pipped internally, you can help by make an external pip for it 24 hours after if it still hasn't figured it out on it's own. If every other egg has either hatched or is a dud, go in and make an external and internal pip, but at that point there won't be must hope.

So in other words leave it, and see how it does. If it's expensive then watch for the internal pip, but my advice to leave it and pray it pips externally, if it's still not out in 24 hours after the external pip, help it. Sometimes they do hatch on their own.
 
Oh and Good Luck
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Mine are also due in a week, I'm so eggcited!
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LukeandAli said:
They are adorable! I can't believe you had so many hatch a day early! I almost always have mine hatch at least half a day late. I thinned out my incubator yesterday. I ended up tossing 5 leghorn eggs that I know are no good (a couple more I wasn't 100% sure on, so, I left them) and one of my brown eggs (once again, a couple more I wasn't 100% sure on, but, better safe than sorry). I tossed all 4 of my "experimental" grocery store eggs. Not one of them even started to develop, so, I'm assuming that they must have reached freezing before I got them (thus killing any chance of hatching them). I'm so excited! My little guys (other than the six I put in from my flock a week later) are due a week from today! I'm really hoping I get some adorable fuzzy butts. My sister is moving and she wants to start a flock once they get their own place set up in the country. I told her that I'd give her some from my hatch (either this hatch or one in the spring). Yeah for spreading the chicken love!
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Usually incubators are set to 99.5 degrees but if you set them to 100.0, some will hatch a day early! :D
 

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