Incubating and hatching can be trial and error at first untill you get the knack of things. I know this certainly happened to me when I first began incubating. The learning centre has a fab section on incubating, here is the link ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-and-raising-chicks
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Glad you could join the flock! Sorry that your hatching has not gone according to plan
I would especially recommend the "Hatching eggs 101" article. It is my bible when it comes hatching.
You can drop the incubating and hatching section of the forum for all your questions ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/5/incubating-amp-hatching-eggs
Wishing you the very best of luck and I hope your chick in the incubator makes it
I did but haven't heard anything. Needless to say I've had very little sleep from being so worried and checking on her several times to make sure she was still moist (which I did use Neosporin that I read about on here) and followed as much other info that I could. I just now, finally just broke down and carefully worked off small pieces of shell. The membrane is extremely tough and rubbery. There was a string like piece that was cutting across her face so I carefully worked it off and just gently help ease that super tough membrane about a 1/3 of the way down from her head and wing area. Very weak but she did move around enough to come out almost all the way and I noticed a very small amount of possible yoke sac so I gave her a few drops of water and put her back in the bator to stay warm and hopefully complete her journey. Holding my breath!! Thank you for your comment.....I appreciate it very much
