Thanks to this guide I have a gorgeous healthy fluffy baby! My incubator ran a little low it seems & only one egg out of eight managed to develop. The chick was very late & then seemed stuck in the shell. A very dark brown egg, hard as a rock. At the end of day 22 the chick had been tapping for ages with no pip, and was starting to sound distressed. I was beside myself with worry. Following this guide I was able to carefully open the shell above the air sac. Thanks to this guide I realised she still wasn’t quite ready to come out, with chewing beak movements & some blood vessels visible. So I put coconut oil on the membrane, cranked the humidity up to 80 and left her in her shell & put her back in the incubator where she chirped and chatted happily. Nearly 24 hours later (at the end of day 23) she got wriggly & restless & seemed ready to come out. Blood vessels had receded & more cheeping than chewing. Well she needed a lot of help coming out but she made it! She’s now a fluffy three day old & doing really well. I am so grateful for this guide! I’d never have managed without it. She was a big chick who could barely move in a rock hard dark brown egg incubated a bit too low. Against all the odds she made it! Thank you, thank you to the writer for sharing your knowledge and experience!! My little bundle of fluff is now a lively three day old in a box beside my bed chatting happily under her brooder. She wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for this guide. I’m one very happy mummy!!
