- Jan 29, 2010
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I just finished my second hatch. My first hatch went perfect. This one was not so.
I had 10 eggs go to lockdown. 5 hatched on days 22-23. The last of those pipped bloody but I left it and 28 hours later it zipped and then was still in the shell all day, it couldnt get out of the hole it made, so I reached in and tipped it up and pulled off a piece of shell and it wriggled like mad and fell out. I noticed the shell was very orange inside and bloody looking. 4 out of the 5 were pipped in the middle, not in the air cells, but the first 4 came out fine on their own, but the shells looked pinker inside than my first hatch.
Then today (day 24) the last two pipped eggs( also pipped in the middle) stopped wiggling, and the peeps got faint and stopped. I helped the one with the bloody pip by opening the shell a little at a time and trying to let it get out on it's own like we did the first one. It continued to get weaker and weaker, so we reluctantly intervened again and streched the shell apart so he could wriggle free. The shell inside was like the first one I helped, but worse. There was no air cell, it was full of blood- tinged fluid.
Then I checked on the last pipped egg and it was dead. I opened it and the chick was fully formed and I think the yolk was absorbed, bit it was full of fluid as well. It had not actually broken through the outer membrane, just the inner one.
I took this picture of the dead chick, I am sorry it is sad and unpleasant, but I am hoping someone with much experience here can tell me what went wrong?
I put the last three eggs, that haven't pipped or anything and put them under my broody hen instead of her blue plastic eggs, because I figure you never know?
I had 10 eggs go to lockdown. 5 hatched on days 22-23. The last of those pipped bloody but I left it and 28 hours later it zipped and then was still in the shell all day, it couldnt get out of the hole it made, so I reached in and tipped it up and pulled off a piece of shell and it wriggled like mad and fell out. I noticed the shell was very orange inside and bloody looking. 4 out of the 5 were pipped in the middle, not in the air cells, but the first 4 came out fine on their own, but the shells looked pinker inside than my first hatch.
Then today (day 24) the last two pipped eggs( also pipped in the middle) stopped wiggling, and the peeps got faint and stopped. I helped the one with the bloody pip by opening the shell a little at a time and trying to let it get out on it's own like we did the first one. It continued to get weaker and weaker, so we reluctantly intervened again and streched the shell apart so he could wriggle free. The shell inside was like the first one I helped, but worse. There was no air cell, it was full of blood- tinged fluid.
Then I checked on the last pipped egg and it was dead. I opened it and the chick was fully formed and I think the yolk was absorbed, bit it was full of fluid as well. It had not actually broken through the outer membrane, just the inner one.
I took this picture of the dead chick, I am sorry it is sad and unpleasant, but I am hoping someone with much experience here can tell me what went wrong?
I put the last three eggs, that haven't pipped or anything and put them under my broody hen instead of her blue plastic eggs, because I figure you never know?
