Ok... I have my lav orps hatching out today... The first one hatched without a problem... Two more were pipped and finally started zipping this afternoon... I noticed the second one was hatching our just fine but the one that pipped second wasn't moving, except for breathing... Of course, this is not my first hatch so i knew something was wrong... I watched it for a little bit and it still had made no progress... After the second chick hatched out, I looked at the last 3 eggs and none of them had pipped at all so I went ahead and got the chick that was in trouble out... I opened the bator just enough to get my hand in there, spritzed some water in there, grabbed the egg and closed it... Sure enough, the internal membrane had become "glue" and this poor thing was stuck... The funny thing is, the outter membrane was not dry so it's not really shrink wrapping... My temp is 100 and the humidity has been 65% except for when the first chick hatched of course... This isn't the first time this has happened so I would really love to know how to prevent it from happening in the future... Is it something I am doing/not doing or is it just one of those things that happens from time to time?
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