If it were me, as long as there is no veining, I would break the membrane where the chick's beak is. Good Luck, I'll be routing for you.
I have to offer an apology on behalf of my new chick to everyone who was watching him on my webcam after his pip yesterday. I waited and waited on him all day to start zipping, but had to give up at midnight and shut things down.
Then while I was brushing my teeth and getting ready for bed, my husband calls to me: "Honey, did you know the egg is almost done zipping?"
Frakkin' what?! Zipping in like, 10 minutes? What kind of mutant chickens does Whole Foods sell eggs from? When I looked at him, he wasn't even zipping correctly either. It looked like he got halfway around the egg, then just went "To heck with this, raaaaaaaaaaaaawr Godzilla time!", and just shattered the entire top half of the egg while I was watching.
No worries though, he has received a stern lecture on how to properly hatch. He won't do it again, I promise.
Though it does seem that I do have to worry about other strange mutant behavior. Overnight he randomly divided, and we woke up to two chickens in the bator. Nevermind the empty shell, it's entirely his fault, I know it.
What a bunch of cute peepers! Congratulations!Wow,I finally got caught up on most of the latest posts.Whew.I just love seeing all the pictures of these baby birds.Congrats to all that got babies.And sooo sorry to read about the ones that didn't make it.I think it happens to all of us that try and hatch,sometimes we have great success and sometimes huge failures.I'm a try,try,try again person so I just keep hoping for the best and go again.I ended up with 24 out of 39 chickens set hatching and 3 out of 5 turkeys.I didn't keep count of how many of my blues and mixed I set so its hard to tell whats what.I did get a nice variety of colors and thats what I always enjoy.Here's a few pictures I took a little while ago.
My First Chick Has Hatched!
Astro wasted no time in welcoming his new little buddy.
Dawww!!!
My brooder so far... See my little glued chick in the corner?
Mr.Heinz, the yellow striped chick came from an egg you said was from your layer pen (no code)... What is it?? She (I hope) is beautiful!!!
Great Pictures!
My sentiments exactly. It's so nice to have like-minded folks to run to and share with!
You glued your chick in the corner?
I would let it dry off and see if it improves ... their beaks are always growing so it may change.
Yay - how adorable! Hope you are feeling a little better. My slowpoke finally hatched this morning after having pipped early yesterday afternoon. Once it started to zip it was quick, but you could tell it was tired.
I have to offer an apology on behalf of my new chick to everyone who was watching him on my webcam after his pip yesterday. I waited and waited on him all day to start zipping, but had to give up at midnight and shut things down.
Then while I was brushing my teeth and getting ready for bed, my husband calls to me: "Honey, did you know the egg is almost done zipping?"
Frakkin' what?! Zipping in like, 10 minutes? What kind of mutant chickens does Whole Foods sell eggs from? When I looked at him, he wasn't even zipping correctly either. It looked like he got halfway around the egg, then just went "To heck with this, raaaaaaaaaaaaawr Godzilla time!", and just shattered the entire top half of the egg while I was watching.
No worries though, he has received a stern lecture on how to properly hatch. He won't do it again, I promise.
Though it does seem that I do have to worry about other strange mutant behavior. Overnight he randomly divided, and we woke up to two chickens in the bator. Nevermind the empty shell, it's entirely his fault, I know it.
Looks like he's starting to shrink wrapSO I investigated a bit further... turns out I was right on my instinct that the bator's humidity was too low.... the first little pip ended up shrink-wrapped.I'm working on slowly assisting since it's still chirping, but it had pipped 24 hours ago. :/
So not what you want to see..... :/
If they are indeed shrink wrapped, and it looks like there is no veins anywhere then I'd go ahead and try and break them out. If you see ANY blood STOP and don't mess with the egg for 30-60 minutes, then try again. This method has worked for me. I recently helped out a shrink wrapped duckling, he'd absorbed his yolk sac and everything, so I was able just to pull him right out. Good luck and keep us posted!
my experience is that many times if they are late and shrinkwrapped they're already too weak. I also discovered there's 2 membranes, the dry outer one...and the very thin, very delicate inner membrane that has the blood vessels. You won't be able to see the inner membrane unless you gently remove the dry outer membrane. But if you peel it back you risk tearing the inner membrane. I personally won't just let them die. IF you know they're that weak or they're dying in the shells after you hear them peeping then i'd help. BUT it almost never turns out good for me. I also have many many hatch way later than 36 hours. I wouldn't go on time, you may just have late hatchers from too low temps. And Im pretty sure they dont peep unless they've internally pipped. Maybe you can water test them? I'm not that experienced but those have been my experience.
I opened it, only one chick inside with 2 yolks stuck together. I think it may have died because it couldnt absorb both yolks, I guess the other wasnt fertile or didnt have a blastoderm on it. It was fully formed though.
