Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry

Very informative!

Oh! Thank u,this has been a blast reading.I hope to cooperate with emergency hatching in the future❣

I love this article! Gives me a lot of details! I have 2 healthy peafowl I otherwise would probably not have without this article!

Excellent information. It gives me confidence to save lives.

On day 20, I had a chick that had pipped, but sat for 28 hours without going any further. I could see it's beak moving, but I was sure it was stuck. I found this article and followed the instructions to help complete it's zIp. I wrapped it in a warm wet washcloth and stuck it back in the incubator at 10:30pm. At 4:00 am, I went to check on the chick to find a beautiful little French Marans chick looking up at me. It had kicked it's way out and was beginning to fluff-up. This article helped save my baby.
Great article! Thank you. ?

Very helpful. Allowed me to assist and hatch out a perfect little quail chick.

Amazing help and details! I have never incubated eggs, but if I do, I will definitely use this information!

My first ever guinea fowl egg started hatching and a piece of shell fell off the side.24 hours later, much peeping but chick couldn't get out as the membrane had dried. I followed all your instructions for assisted hatching, and I now have a happy little keet running round. Without your guidance it wouldn't have made it. Thanks.

Wonderfully written! I just assisted a hatch and used coconut oil to keep the membranes moist and not dry out. The chick is doing great!
Thank you for sharing!

I think this is the best article I've read on assisted hatching. I especially like the idea of moistening with coconut oil.

Great article! very useful and informative.

Excellent article! I share this article along with another assisted hatching article more than any other articles on BYC! Such a great resource for those new to hatching!

This is a very excellent article.i used this method to help one of my eggs

Excellent detail to this article...SO incredibly helpful. I was in total panic mode until reading this.

Very good information . But I think with this reading , now I want to see a video of an assist .

EGGcellent!!

It is a shame to only be able to rate this 5 stars. It is FANTASTIC. How wonderful of you to spend the time that this precision must have taken to give this fantastic information!

Thanks for explaining and settling my nerves. ?

Okay few thank you so much

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!!