Sticky chick

Branddii

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I need help. Lockdown was Friday. (Day 21) yesterday (day 22) after a few hatched, I was getting ready for bed and heard loud chirping from the bator with no sleeping breaks, so I went to check on the chicks. Well the heat source in my little giant just quit working. Temp was down in the 80’s. I had a few eggs piped and some where not pipped. Luckily I had another bator running with chicks due in a week. So I moved the chicks hatched to the brooder and squished my last 9 eggs into the other bator. I checked in the night and I had hatched. Two more are pipped. We are day 23 now, this is my concern. I don’t want to spike the humidity and compromise my other eggs not due for another week, but I really want these last few eggs to hatch. Any suggestions? They are a really fancy breed Swedish Hedemora. Also the chick that hatched is covered like a sticky chick. Can’t open eyes. Should I leave it till the others hopefully hatch or should I take it out and try to clean it of the glue? And put it back in?
What an emotional rollercoaster this hatch was.
Thank you guys
 

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I need help. Lockdown was Friday. (Day 21) yesterday (day 22) after a few hatched, I was getting ready for bed and heard loud chirping from the bator with no sleeping breaks, so I went to check on the chicks. Well the heat source in my little giant just quit working. Temp was down in the 80’s. I had a few eggs piped and some where not pipped. Luckily I had another bator running with chicks due in a week. So I moved the chicks hatched to the brooder and squished my last 9 eggs into the other bator. I checked in the night and I had hatched. Two more are pipped. We are day 23 now, this is my concern. I don’t want to spike the humidity and compromise my other eggs not due for another week, but I really want these last few eggs to hatch. Any suggestions? They are a really fancy breed Swedish Hedemora. Also the chick that hatched is covered like a sticky chick. Can’t open eyes. Should I leave it till the others hopefully hatch or should I take it out and try to clean it of the glue? And put it back in?
What an emotional rollercoaster this hatch was.
Thank you guys
I'm sorry no one answered on sunday.
But I'm still curious! How did your hatch go?
Feel free to share pictures!
 
I'm sorry no one answered on sunday.
But I'm still curious! How did your hatch go?
Feel free to share pictures!
Oh man it was a bad one. I lost a lot of chicks from the first incubator and I jeopardizes some in the second incubator likely because of humidity spikes. I had to literally hatch 4 chicks by hand that had pipped and where stuck by glue like substance inside. 2 out of the 4 made it and are thriving now. It was an emotional couple of days trying to figure out how to save some of them. So out of two full bators I hatched 11 chicks. What a nightmare. 2 surviving Swedish hedemoras (wooly feathered) 1 black mottled ameraucana split to lavender and a mottled lavender ameraucana. I’m very grateful for these babies.
 

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