Posts by kupi99

Well, I'm thinking this doesn't look good. I can't find the beak like the above link suggests. The inner membrane is still has a lot of veins, and when I poke around the area where the pip was, I can't find it's head. By now I've taken...

Thank you. Yes, I was going off that post. My main concern right now is that I don't think it's pipped the outer membrane. I had another chick in this hatch who pipped, but still died in the shell. It's pip was in a bad spot too, and...

I need help ASAP. I think I might have made things worse for my chick. Yesterday afternoon I had a chick pip the wrong end of the shell. This morning I arrived at work to find that another egg that had pipped in another poor spot had...

Well, I wound up having at assist one. Started zipping and didn't go anywhere for at least 8 hours. I have another one that's pipped since this morning, nothing else yet.   And.... one that's pipped on the wrong end. Not sure...

I can see her banging her head against the shell, and nothing is happening. She's not unzipping more. She's been this way since at least 7:30 this morning, possibly longer. I am a teacher, and we are hatching in eggs in the...

Intense. Sorry.

Yea, I'm starting to enjoy some intestense hours here myself. We had our first pip yesterday afternoon, and this morning I got to work and saw it had started zipping. It hasn't made much progress beyond where it was when I got here at...

Mostly b/c the above thread said that saddle shaped air cells are a common cause of malpostioning, spefically, the chicks can't twist into a good postion to hatch out. Glad to hear they should be able to make it fine on their own....

Day 18. First time with shipped eggs and they all have saddle shaped air sacks, so I am n.e.r.v.o.u.s.

Day 18- Bump and help please! I've never assisted before. The air cells today at candling where bigger, and I am nervous.