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How long can a chick stay zipped before it needs help. Is there a reason why a chick pips but can't finish hatching by its self. It always happens to me. I just need some advice please.
"Hey! You featherless mom! Look, I'm right here!".Well, hatching friends, here's just about the time I freak out screaming! (Well I'm not screaming but...).
Day 21, just after midday (which is when I usually count as the exact time bcs I place the last egg/s under my broody). I just went into the coop. I panicked bcs it seemed Mima (hen) had Vanished!!! I kid you not! Nest was empty, besides the eggs...daddy roo was standing in front of it as he usually does--he is Such a great husband and nest protector!
I look on the ground floor, nope, she's not there. Nothing appears disturbed so I prayerfully discount an attack by predator.
Then I hear her familiar clucking. I believe she's saying to me, "Hey! You featherless mom! Look, I'm right here!".
And she was.
When I had created the dividing temporary 1/2 floor I made sure to block off the ramp so little peeps couldn't stumble down by accident and have no way to get back up to the nest.
Mima has always been used to that set up, but I must have surprised her this time. She must've hopped down to ground level to do her usual stretch and romp, (plus any "other" she needed to do) then got confused and was standing on the ramp looking at the place where she should have been able to take one more step to get to the 2nd floor where her nest is.
I felt so bad! I picked her up, put her back in the nest and gave her (way too many) special delicious foods, added a tiny water bowl (made from the top of a protein powder tub. Even though I usually wait til peeps are hatched to do that, I wanted her little nest/den to have everything she would need to stay put til the eggs become chickens.
The eggs were still warm
The olive egg I've been obsessing about, even though it was in the center of her clutch, was cooler to the touch (?)
And, seeing the pile of eggs without her obstructing the view, I really think her daughter Peaches may have laid a surprise egg in there that I didn't know about.
This hatch is looking crazy. But I have to remember that now is the time I doubt what I've done, second guess the viability of the eggs, etc.
I see no pips, hear no peeps--Yet.
the ones I just hatched incubated at 16%
My last EE had a similar issue. It had piped Sunday night, and Monday morning it had zipped 1/4 of the way and its beak was sticking out. I ended up reaching in and pulling the end of the shell off and allowing it to push itself out of the egg. I'm not sure if the humidity dropped to low or what. It's doing great now so I'm glad I assisted it.How long can a chick stay zipped before it needs help. Is there a reason why a chick pips but can't finish hatching by its self. It always happens to me. I just need some advice please.