Just to update... chickie made it out of the egg but only because the other chick beat the egg up so badly. Chickie had an unabsorbed yolk sack but is doing really good.at.this moment. I had to open the bator and snatch out the healthy ones because the oldest was pecking at the newest. I have...
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I have not helped yet... the white egg with the pencil eraser sized hole is still moving I can see it I think we will help but not until the only other one that has half unzipped hatches out. The hole egg has been like this for just over 24 hrs now. It's no longer visible on my live...
The hatchling I thought was gonna die is doing much better now.. he's not listless in the corner. Since I missed his hatch maybe it had just happened. No new pips since yesterday just waiting on two to get out of the egg!
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Thank you... I think the camera froze over nite though. :o( I woke up to it being down and stuck on the image of the chick hatching. We had two hatch last nite the brown one that was mentioned here and another brown one. I have one more about to hatch this AM and the one still stuck in...
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We have those two and two others with small pips... I have my eye on that brown one too as he got turned over by the one lone hatchling from today. Tomorrow is day 21on the nose so I have a feeling it will be busy documenting hatchings.
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WOW! THIRTY HOURS!!
That is a good point about if I can see his beak he's got air. Here is a link to the live stream video of him.. http://kpchickens.hopto.org:86/flash.html the image isn't great because the lights are off but you can still see him if you look close.
For approx eight hrs now one egg has has a hole in it the size of an pencil eraser. We can see the chick inside opening irs beak and chirping. It is not trying to "unzip"is at all does it need help?