BCM pip to zip?

[Rethia]

Hi! I've read that BCM eggs are a bit thicker and can have a harder time hatching. The BCM egg I got in a BYM for incubating pipped yesterday around 6pm and the pip has grown a little and I can see a little membrane, but it hasn't progressed for a while. I do see the beak on and off. Five chicks have hatched so far and one keeps trying to sit on the BCM egg.

How long do I wait before I should be concerned about the membrane drying out?

 

[charlie1051]

HI, I had 1 pip like that last year but I was TOO patient and waited till the next day and it died. I would go for it.

You're totally right, they're thicker.

I keep editing...

My wife takes a wet QTIP and gently moistens / wets (? is that the right word??) down the shell and then gently pulls it off. Works great

 

[charlie1051]

Hi! I've read that BCM eggs are a bit thicker and can have a harder time hatching. The BCM egg I got in a BYM for incubating pipped yesterday around 6pm and the pip has grown a little and I can see a little membrane, but it hasn't progressed for a while. I do see the beak on and off. Five chicks have hatched so far and one keeps trying to sit on the BCM egg.

How long do I wait before I should be concerned about the membrane drying out?

How'd things turn out ?

 

[Rethia]

How'd things turn out ?

I decided to leave it for the 24 hours from pipping to see what would happen and the chick had broken out some more by about that time and had fully hatched by about 10-11pm.

 

[Rethia]

Some of the chickies!

 

[charlie1051]

Some of the chickies!

That's great that she broke through!!

Those are some cute and healthy looking chicks

Hatching chicks is so much fun, it never gets old.

Take Care!!

 

[casportpony]

Some of the chickies!

Congratulations!

 

[Chickychickenchickchick]

Some of the chickies!View attachment 4078885

Your chicks are gorgeous! Just out of curiosity what does BCM stand for? My brain wants to say Bantam Copper Marans but

 

[Rethia]

Your chicks are gorgeous! Just out of curiosity what does BCM stand for? My brain wants to say Bantam Copper Marans but

Black copper maran! The rooster and some of the hens these are from is a BCM x mystic maran cross.

 

[Chickychickenchickchick]

Black copper maran! The rooster and some of the hens these are from is a BCM x mystic maran cross.

They’re very cute.

I think two of the eggs I’m hatching are from a mum the same as yours, the BCM! Why did I think bantam maybe because it is the bantam version…