If you have actual pips and not just peeping from inside the shell, it can take up to 24 hours before a chick will transition between pip to zip in which the chick actually hatches. After the pip is made a chick rests, and strengthens it's lungs breathing the outside air and most importantly the vascular system between the egg and chick has to shut down. This can take as little as a few hours or as much as a whole day. Also, if the yolk has not fully absorbed before the pip, that has to happen too for the chick to be fully ready to hatch out. The worst part of hatching is the time between lockdown and that first pip and the time between pip and zip.Hello today is day 21 and I was wondering how long after the first peep will it take for it actually start hatching? It has been 3 hours so far since this peep!
You have mentioned that they have internally piped. Have there been any external pips yet?
It appears that the vascular system between the chick and egg has not shut down and the veins are still prominent in the membranes. The chick was not ready to hatch and why it did not start a zip yet. Now that that much membrane is exposed before the chick is ready, keep an eye on it to make sure that it does not dry and glue itself to the chick.Hello this is Sabrina, I'm wondering why my chick is hatching and their is thick stringy blood and the baby is still alive and chirping. What happened?? The other chick helped it dtart hatching. The chick inside the egg doesn't seem in pain. The bleeding has stopped.[/URL]
