20 day egg pipped then died

[wells06]

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We put our eggs on lockdown on day 19 and heard some chirping in an egg that morning. The next day 4 of them were rocking. Then that night I saw one pipped through the middle of the egg and the beak was half out but not moving. It died and looked like he had some liquid in the beak. The temperature in the still air was 99 or 100 the whole 18 days and humidity was 60 at the most. The air sacks were good also the size of 18 day eggs before lockdown. We did up the humidity to 70 on day 19. The liquid looked a little brown. We have 3 other one that pipped and one is chirping and pecking at the hole but not zipping but they pipped around 130 am. I am worried the others might die since this one did.

 

[WalnutHill]

I'm sorry to say that they sometimes do die at hatch. Maybe that one pecked through a blood vessel when pipping, maybe there was infection in the egg. Keep an eye on the others, sounds like they are doing fine so far.

 

[wells06]

My Husband said some are rocking and the one that pipped made the hole about the size of a dime and is breathing through it and talking to him. I wondered if he pipped where the air sack wasn't and died before he could make it. It happened fast since I checked an hour before and no eggs were pipped.

 

[wells06]

This is what the chick looks like. Is this normal? The last egg I saw pipped and zipped within an hour.

 

[gander007]

This is what the chick looks like. Is this normal? The last egg I saw pipped and zipped within an hour.

Normal / it happens

 

[Tricoglossus]

My Husband said some are rocking and the one that pipped made the hole about the size of a dime and is breathing through it and talking to him. I wondered if he pipped where the air sack wasn't and died before he could make it. It happened fast since I checked an hour before and no eggs were pipped.

Yes this can definitely happen. It's called malpositioning. I have lost lots of chicks to this. They try to pip but they suffocate halfway through, because they are not pipping into the air cell and they drown.

 

[wells06]

We are doing pretty good. We have 12 hatched with another one taking it's sweet time to zip. We have 7 that are not pipped so might candle them tomorrow day 23. Going to take them out when the pipped one hatches as they are knocking and beating each other up especially they ones that are just hatched or halfway. They like to peck at the pipped one's beak.