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Sorry honey. On my last egg left. I waited 24 hours. When I disected it, the poor chick looked to have quit about a week before hatch date... But I dont have much more experience than you do. So I would wait and see what everyone else thinks. Dont beat yourself up over it though, remember that you are still in the learning process.
eta, the egg was also very large, and the chick looked like it was two combining into one...
Was icky to look at but very interesting as well. Maby a double yolker?
I count the following day as day 1.
I waite a whole day afterwards and then remove the dry healthy babies, then I get each lifeless egg, with draw it from the incubator, and hold it to my ear, and tap it.
If silent, it is a dead egg.
If it peeps, wet it and put it back.
If by the next day (day 23) there is still nothing, no pip, no crack...then I repeat the tap process and usually crack the aircell, and either I help them or if dead, discard.
Sometimes they were not meant to hatch, too weak or have physical defects you do not want to try to deal with and the baby would more than likely not survive anyways.
You have to be tough, and realize, a chick that late is going to be sticky, and have anomalies.
Sorry
Thank you. Good information. I took the other chicks out because they were all good and dry and seemed to be tripping over the other eggs pretty good....can the chicks hurt the unborn chicks? can they bang the eggs around enough that the chick inside is hurt, or cannot get at it's air sack or something? We actually watched a couple of the eggs rockin and a rollin....even before they had pipped. So I was watching these 5 for that. Nuthin.
