Two chicks pipped but then died?

[InsaneChicken]

2 eggs hatched today and two pipped. It's day 20. The two that pipped were fine at first, squirming and chirping and then I checked on them a few hours later and both of them are dead? What happened? I guess I'll hold out hope for my last 4 eggs... I have the right humidity and the temp is 99.5...

 

[InsaneChicken]

Anyone?

 

[InsaneChicken]

and another question about the second one that hatched...
It's still attached to the egg with a thick umbilical cord.. Will that fall off? I don't want anything bad to happen... Hatching eggs yourself is fun but it sure does have it's heartbreaks...

 

[sammyb]

yeah it will wobble around with the egg for a while as it drys it will fall off ,,, i had it happen to a couple of mine the other day and they are fine !

 

[CayleeMarie03]

The ones that pipped are probably just resting.

 

[InsaneChicken]

No they weren't resting... I checked on them. Took them out. Because they were not moving at all. I peeled back a little of the shell and they were dead. This hatch was a disaster. 2 out of 8 hatched.

 

[gabrielle1976]

did you have vent holes open they die with out oxegen

 

[InsaneChicken]

Yes I did. My very first time I hatched eggs I forgot and left the plugs in and all of them hatched. This time 2 did and I just have no hope left for the four still in there..

 

[Beckymca]

How long have they been in there? I see people post pics of chicks hatching at 24-25 days. Maybe you need to hang in there a bit longer?!?!?!?!

 

[InsaneChicken]

today is the 22nd day. I'm going to wait but I doubt anything will happen

. I'm left with 2 silkie mixes. One is black (her name is Thing 1) and one is yellow with brown stripes on her back (Thing 2)

I love those lil chicks.