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[lutherpug]

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I have incubated 5 silkie eggs. 2 have hatched, 1 is zipping, 1 is pipped, and nothing on the last one yet. Of the 2 that hatched, 1 took 24 hours from pip, the other less than 2. The 24 hour chick seems stuck on its back in the incubator. It has been out of the shell for maybe 2 hours or so. It furiously tries to flip over but hasn't had any success. After the zipping chick gets out, I think I will have a window of time to open the bator, flip it, and close it without dropping the humidity much below 60-65%. Should I do it while I have the benefit of immediate post hatch humidity? Pic of the stuck one-

 

[lutherpug]

I got it. Hopefully it doesn't impact the pipped one. 3 so far.....

 

[Helloworld]

I'm starting a new thread for this question-

I have incubated 5 silkie eggs. 2 have hatched, 1 is zipping, 1 is pipped, and nothing on the last one yet. Of the 2 that hatched, 1 took 24 hours from pip, the other less than 2. The 24 hour chick seems stuck on its back in the incubator. It has been out of the shell for maybe 2 hours or so. It furiously tries to flip over but hasn't had any success. After the zipping chick gets out, I think I will have a window of time to open the bator, flip it, and close it without dropping the humidity much below 60-65%. Should I do it while I have the benefit of immediate post hatch humidity? Pic of the stuck one-

Did you turn it over to see if it will stay? You can quickly open and do that. Put your plugs in, bring humidity up about 10%, open, turn over, close, pull out plugs. The plugs control the humidity. Open as small as possible and as close to him as possible.

 

[lutherpug]

Did you turn it over to see if it will stay? You can quickly open and do that. Put your plugs in, bring humidity up about 10%, open, turn over, close, pull out plugs. The plugs control the humidity. Open as small as possible and as close to him as possible.

That's more or less what I did. Humidity was under 60% for less than a minute and is now back in the 70's. Everyone is acting good, the flipped chick is upright and hanging out. Hopefully the pipped one doesn't have any trouble with the quick drop in humidity. This is super exciting and very stressful.

 

[Helloworld]

I keep mine between 55-60. Too high and they can drown. My goose eggs stay at 65-70 only because they have a harder shell. Ducks will drown at 65-70.

Quick drop in humidity...

Did you know that the core temp of an egg where chick is takes about an hr to cool down to exterior shell temp? So no harm done. All holes open and bring humidity down if you can. Sometimes, chicks get too wet and it creates a sticky mess making it harder to move but right now, you are making sure that the humidity is softening or has softened the shell enough for them to get out.

 

[Helloworld]

Oh! Did the chick stay over? Duh

 

[lutherpug]

The flipped chick is good and upright, the pipped chick just hatched! 4 out of 5! We have one more egg with no action yet but I'm very excited about the 4 we have.

 

[Helloworld]

Yeah!

 

[lutherpug]

Yeah!

I know, I'm super jazzed. Even if we end up with 4 out of the 6 original fertile eggs I will be ecstatic for my first hatch with Ebay eggs, no less. I'll take it. Plus, I think I lucked out and got 4 (but at least 3) different colored silkies.

 

[L1sa]

They are so cute. The one on his back looked adorable in the pics!

4 out of 5 is really good going. Well done.

Here's fingers crossed that you get 100%