What day is this egg? Staggered hatch. Help!!

[amaurichick]

:/

I pulled 10 eggs out of my coop after my broody Buff Orpington abandoned them for her 5 hatched chicks. She was stealing eggs, so I don't know the age of all eggs. So far, two have hatched. One 4 days ago, one 2 days ago, and all others have quit besides this one.
The egg has been twitching for 5 days but when I candle it, it looks small.
I had to candle with a cell phone so I apologize for the bad pic.
What do you guys think? I've never hatched chickens before!
Water candled it, and it twitched.

 

[amaurichick]

 

[WVduckchick]

Air cell still looks small to me, and the chick itself, plus the amount of clear area between the chick and the air cell. I'd say you have at least 3-5 days to go. Best of luck!

 

[amaurichick]

Thank you! The wiggling was confusing me!
I'll give it a few more days. The humidity has been 65% for about a week now, for the other eggs that were hatching so I hope this one is ok.

 

[WVduckchick]

That would explain the smaller air cell. I think I'd keep the humidity down for a couple more days.

 

[amaurichick]

Okay! Thanks again for the advice. I feel so guilty about the eggs that didn't make it, but I'm pretty impressed that two healthy chicks have hatched already considering I had no clue what I was doing 14 days ago when I put them in my homemade incubator. No more staggered hatches! It's too stressful.

I love this site!

 

[WVduckchick]

That's how alot of people find BYC! Lol I found this site when I brought home an incubator that I bought from a local guy, and it already had 7 eggs in it on day 12!! Lol

Post some pics of your new chicks if you can.

 

[amaurichick]

These two think I'm their mama!

 

[amaurichick]

 

[WVduckchick]

Haha they are adorable!!