Jojociita
In the Brooder
- Aug 25, 2023
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So I even went to ChatGPT with this and the thing said that it was both rare for an egg tooth to slice and not “crack” the shell, as well as get STUCK.
I’m incubating 24 eggs from a coworker, silkie and olive eggers. This baby is a silkie and she made her initial pip, not only malpositioned, but also stuck? Her egg tooth seemed to make a clean cut into the shell without any additional cracks etc. and she’s trying VERY HARD topull her egg tooth back in, but seems stuck. No other pips or openings in the shell. She 12 hours early and there are others who have piped internally and are Peeping. If she pipped externally immediately… she needs air… and if her egg tooth it stuck in the shell.. no air. There’s plenty of peeping but I don’t think it’s from her. I don’t want to compromise her siblings, but I also don’t want to let her die because she had a freak circumstance.
Humidity was 45 - 55 the entire incubation averaging at 99.8 f temp. 5th hatch, diy incubator using micro controllers and iot (i built and coded smart devices to turn on and off heat during the incubation to maintain a consistent temp). Lockdown humidity is at 68%. Half are in a carton, half I placed in cupcake liners. She’s one in the carton.
What in the world do I do? Crack the side door barely and try to use a qtip to quickly assist her egg tooth back into her egg? Leave her alone?
The carton is yellow and the light makes her shell look tan but it’s a tiny white silkie egg. Either way it’s hard to see, so I colored around everything to show what I can see with my actual eyes.
She was rocking and trying to pull her egg tooth free earlier, but she’s very barely active now. I don’t want her to suffocate, but I have no idea how to help. I took the best pics I find considering the circumstance and my available angles. teal is the outline of the egg, pink is to show the angle and the egg tooth. I added an additional picture to so a possible additional pip attempt? We’re 4 hours from day 21, but this happened about 7 hours ago. She’s early, but I still worry about oxygen simply because she pipped early and incorrectly. I have half a mind to gently coax the tooth back into the shell but I don’t want to risk hurting her or the other internally pipped chicks
I’m incubating 24 eggs from a coworker, silkie and olive eggers. This baby is a silkie and she made her initial pip, not only malpositioned, but also stuck? Her egg tooth seemed to make a clean cut into the shell without any additional cracks etc. and she’s trying VERY HARD topull her egg tooth back in, but seems stuck. No other pips or openings in the shell. She 12 hours early and there are others who have piped internally and are Peeping. If she pipped externally immediately… she needs air… and if her egg tooth it stuck in the shell.. no air. There’s plenty of peeping but I don’t think it’s from her. I don’t want to compromise her siblings, but I also don’t want to let her die because she had a freak circumstance.
Humidity was 45 - 55 the entire incubation averaging at 99.8 f temp. 5th hatch, diy incubator using micro controllers and iot (i built and coded smart devices to turn on and off heat during the incubation to maintain a consistent temp). Lockdown humidity is at 68%. Half are in a carton, half I placed in cupcake liners. She’s one in the carton.
What in the world do I do? Crack the side door barely and try to use a qtip to quickly assist her egg tooth back into her egg? Leave her alone?
The carton is yellow and the light makes her shell look tan but it’s a tiny white silkie egg. Either way it’s hard to see, so I colored around everything to show what I can see with my actual eyes.
She was rocking and trying to pull her egg tooth free earlier, but she’s very barely active now. I don’t want her to suffocate, but I have no idea how to help. I took the best pics I find considering the circumstance and my available angles. teal is the outline of the egg, pink is to show the angle and the egg tooth. I added an additional picture to so a possible additional pip attempt? We’re 4 hours from day 21, but this happened about 7 hours ago. She’s early, but I still worry about oxygen simply because she pipped early and incorrectly. I have half a mind to gently coax the tooth back into the shell but I don’t want to risk hurting her or the other internally pipped chicks
) it’s very visible with the naked eye but hard to capture. When viewed at an angle I can’t get a pic from, you can see her tooth just jutting straight out. 
I hate for the first pip to such a heart wrenching one, but I’m not sure if I CAN do anything to help without risking the other 23 eggs, or if I should. Or if she’s still alive 
I’ve hatched out 6 beautifully chaotic chicks this far tho. One was out 8 hours early, another 2 hours past 5am, the third around 7pm and the last 3 as I was commuting an hour home from 9:15-10:15. I’ve got two beautiful olive eggers, 2 adorable blonde/platinum silkies, and two “wildcards” as it were. I’ve no clue. My coworker just hands me eggs and I try to incubate. 
there’s another peeping in hell (of the original 24) but I’ve no clue who so I’m just sitting back and anxiously awaiting whoever is the new arrival 
They are all back with my coworker who gave me the eggs to attempt hatching. Everything I have is DIY and he has a huge flock with too many eggs. When I told him I wanted to try hatching, he happily shoved a bunch of eggs at me. Apparently whenever his girls go broody they give up rather quickly so he rarely gets to have baby chicks. He and his wife have been overjoyed with each little clutch i bring them, and I’ve gotten to simply revel in the process. Its anxiety-inducing, but SO rewarding. Coming to terms with knowing that many won’t hatch and some that hatch won’t make it. Though it’s hard, it’s far more rewarding!
