Advice needed: Air sac at narrow end & piped at wide end

sdurham said:

I think that's it exactly. There was no air sac at the wide end so she pip'do through the shell when she did her internal pip. The good news is that she now has air- I just worry about the membranes drying out since my Bator doesn't have manual humidity control.

The good news is that I dodged the "narrow end pip" bullet. Now I worry about humidity and position.

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sdurham said:

The other egg that is due pip'd externally a few hours ago. That's probably the timetable I should calibrate to

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sdurham said:

27 hrs after external pip.... she's here!

I was a wreck the entire time and finally assisted her at the 25 hr mark (removed shell where the zip line should have been). I don't know if she could have done it alone or not but she was more than ready!

We've named her "Tricky" after a simultaneous internal & external pip at the opposite end of the air sac... and apparent attempts at zipping vertically instead of horizontally.

Thanks for your help & coaching!

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sdurham said:

Thanks! The other egg had an external pip 12 hours ago and getting bigger by the hour. She's working on starting to zip. Seems like she started getting serious once she heard Tricky. My only concern about egg #2 was that it is very porous... but she's made it this far so those fears are gone.

It was amazing to (finally) watch Tricky hatch. She could hear us though the bator and would start working every time she heard us cheering for her. So sweet.

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