Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

[AgnesGray]

I wouldn't be concerned. Just keep an eye on it, but you will likely see it hatch just fine with the rest of the peeps. How close to the pointy end is it?

It's a little more central than I would like it to be. I can see the beak at least, but it's not very near the air cell.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It's a little more central than I would like it to be. I can see the beak at least, but it's not very near the air cell.

There's a pretty good chance that central is still inside of the air cell and not upside down in the egg. The air cell will draw down a lot right before the chick hatches and when you have saddled or detached air cells it's even more likely that you'll see them pipping lower. To give you peace of mind though, even when they are upside down the most difficult part of that hatch is pipping since the chick has to internally and externally pip all at once and not hit any blood vessels while doing so. So your chick is in good shape and getting oxygen at the point and it's just a matter of time to finish absorbing the blood vessels and yolk sac before starting to zip! Keep us updated!

 

[AgnesGray]

There's a pretty good chance that central is still inside of the air cell and not upside down in the egg. The air cell will draw down a lot right before the chick hatches and when you have saddled or detached air cells it's even more likely that you'll see them pipping lower. To give you peace of mind though, even when they are upside down the most difficult part of that hatch is pipping since the chick has to internally and externally pip all at once and not hit any blood vessels while doing so. So your chick is in good shape and getting oxygen at the point and it's just a matter of time to finish absorbing the blood vessels and yolk sac before starting to zip! Keep us updated!

Will do, thank you! I took a suggestion here and played them youtube peeps this morning. Got 7 external pips in about 15 minutes!

 

[AgnesGray]

The brown one in the middle seems to have gotten wedged and has a huge crack since 1 hr ago. Is it pip related? Should I intervene?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

The brown one in the middle seems to have gotten wedged and has a huge crack since 1 hr ago. Is it pip related? Should I intervene?

I wouldn't open the incubator yet. It's just a pip not a zip, you'll know if they actually get stuck.

 

[AgnesGray]

Ok... going to try to chill in that case and check back on them in a little while. Thank you!

 

[My hen house]

An update on my 4 eggs on Thursdays I started picking back the shell to see what was happening they are all dead and looked like they died on day 18 or 19 and it seem very watery inside what do you guys recommend for humidity for my next hatch I have the magicfly janoel 12 incubater for incubation period I would keep it at 35 to 50 ideal 40 during hatching I would try to keep it at 60 to 70 the only thing that happened is that the the water cup spilled somehow and the humidity was at 80-90 by accident overnight so I had to wipe all the water out so it wouldn't stay that high for too long my temp was at 99.5 F
What should I do for next hatch

 

[CluckNDoodle]

An update on my 4 eggs on Thursdays I started picking back the shell to see what was happening they are all dead and looked like they died on day 18 or 19 and it seem very watery inside what do you guys recommend for humidity for my next hatch I have the magicfly janoel 12 incubater for incubation period I would keep it at 35 to 50 ideal 40 during hatching I would try to keep it at 60 to 70 the only thing that happened is that the the water cup spilled somehow and the humidity was at 80-90 by accident overnight so I had to wipe all the water out so it wouldn't stay that high for too long my temp was at 99.5 F
What should I do for next hatch

Oh no! I'm so sorry! It sounds like you usually kept the humidity nice and low through incubation but if you had fluid build up in the air cell then it was definitely too high. 80-90% can definitely do that if left for extended periods of time unfortunately. If they weren't internally pipped it wouldn't be from drowning though. Did it look like there was a sort of sticky goo around the chicks?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

The reason I'm asking is because it will help to determine what humidity will work best for your incubator. If the humidity was too high during incubation it can cause what's called sticky chicks and they won't be able to turn properly in the egg to internally pip. In which case I would completely dry incubate for the first 18 days in your incubator or if it runs super low with no water then I might put in just enough to get it to about 30-35%. Once you get to hatch day, same thing, try running lower humidity, I've never done lower than 50% myself but it's a good starting point, if you see the membrane turning brown at the pip point then you could slowly increase the humidity to about 60%. Since you're having issues with fluid build up in your incubator I wouldn't go any higher than that. I hope that helps!

 

[My hen house]

The reason I'm asking is because it will help to determine what humidity will work best for your incubator. If the humidity was too high during incubation it can cause what's called sticky chicks and they won't be able to turn properly in the egg to internally pip. In which case I would completely dry incubate for the first 18 days in your incubator or if it runs super low with no water then I might put in just enough to get it to about 30-35%. Once you get to hatch day, same thing, try running lower humidity, I've never done lower than 50% myself but it's a good starting point, if you see the membrane turning brown at the pip point then you could slowly increase the humidity to about 60%. Since you're having issues with fluid build up in your incubator I wouldn't go any higher than that. I hope that helps!

I had no internal pips I was thinking for my next hatch I would do dry for incubation period and then for hatching get it up a bit

But when I was doing my testing before I put eggs in or water it was at 11% humidity and I'm not sure if that would be to dry or not