24 hrs post zip

[comptonkids]

I have a chick that pipped Sunday evening
I'm not sure what time but I noticed the pip after 7 PM
It's currently 940 PM the next day

It has not zipped and its pip has not gotten much bigger than when I first noticed it

I can see some movement but not a lot

It was kicked around quite a bit by other chicks as they stumbled around the incubator

I don't have a humidity thing to see what that is at right now but the water reservoir looks pretty full

 

[lazy gardener]

It is malpositioned. You might give it until morning if, humidity is nice and high, if it still sounds like it has some energy, if it has not been giving distress calls. Often a malpositioned pip takes longer to hatch, since the external pip is also the internal pip. It's a good sized pip. Do you have other eggs pipping? Was this the last one to pip?

 

[lazy gardener]

Your call whether you assist or not. You might try removing a bit of shell. If all blood is absorbed from membrane, you could remove just a bit of shell at a time and assess. The chick may not be able to proceed because she is malpositioned. Your call. There is an article that you can find if you do a thread search regarding "assisted hatching".

 

[comptonkids]

It is malpositioned. You might give it until morning if, humidity is nice and high, if it still sounds like it has some energy, if it has not been giving distress calls. Often a malpositioned pip takes longer to hatch, since the external pip is also the internal pip. It's a good sized pip. Do you have other eggs pipping? Was this the last one to pip?

I've had 3 hatch rather quick
This was the 2nd one I noticed pipping, and ones that started after have hatched
I have at least 1 more that has pipped as well

I haven't really heard much from these last 2

 

[comptonkids]

A chick that just started pipping this morning is zipping
So I carefully took some of the shell off the one I'm concerned about and tried to peel back some of the outer membrane

I'm a little concerned about possible shrink wrapping so I put a damp cloth around the egg

I will check on him(her?) In the morning, I don't want to do too much. Especially since this is my first real hatch