BaileyMChicks
Songster
HI. I had bought some D'Uccles from a breeder wanting to downsize on their breeds, and one of the hens was sitting on 2 eggs. They both had developing embryos. So, I stuck them in my incubator and added a few more eggs. Needless to say none of the other seven eggs even started developing. 4 or 5 weren't even fertile, and some I think had gotten too cold when the breeder didn't have time to collect the eggs(they were from a bunch of pullet and cockerels they were growing out, old enough to lay and breed, but the boys weren't doing their job lol). So now I just have my two lil D'Uccles. So, yesterday was lockdown(I saw an internal pip, and I used that as my guideline since I wasn't 100% sure of their age) and the older of the two chicks pipped. It hadn't made much progress, but I went downstairs to sleep. I almost never wake up in the middle of the night, so I kinda rely on my mom to check the humidity at night, since she gets up a lot. When she checked the humidity this morning, it was at 45%. It couldn't have been for too terribly long. Do you think the chick is shrink-wrapped? Should I help in a few hours? It's been like 14-15 hours since first external pip...It has made the pip bigger, but it hasn't been dong much of anything for the last hour....I'm just very worried.
