Dilemma!

[careeka22]

Ok so I dropped an egg on day 15 and it cracked badly. I couldn't open it so I taped it and put it back. I left the air cell but didn't think it had a chance. Here we are day 21 and it's alive and internally pipped! I just saw it rocking. But now I worried I taped to high! Should I do a safety hole? It's too late to remove the tape it would pull the shell apart.

Also I have one from my hatch due yesterday. The rest have hatched but this one has a nice hole and is chirping away but won't come out. Leave it or assist? I just get concerned that others I left ended up dying.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Ok so I dropped an egg on day 15 and it cracked badly. I couldn't open it so I taped it and put it back. I left the air cell but didn't think it had a chance. Here we are day 21 and it's alive and internally pipped! I just saw it rocking. But now I worried I taped to high! Should I do a safety hole? It's too late to remove the tape it would pull the shell apart.

Also I have one from my hatch due yesterday. The rest have hatched but this one has a nice hole and is chirping away but won't come out. Leave it or assist? I just get concerned that others I left ended up dying.

I think you're probably going to have to assist (if it's been trying for 24hrs), but do so very very carefully. Also, the tapped one will likely need assistance as well as that will be incredibly hard for it to get through.

 

[careeka22]

I think you're probably going to have to assist (if it's been trying for 24hrs), but do so very very carefully. Also, the tapped one will likely need assistance as well as that will be incredibly hard for it to get through.

Thanks! I'm going to give them both another hour then gently pull it back and make a pin hole in the taped one.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Thanks! I'm going to give them both another hour then gently pull it back and make a pin hole in the taped one.

Yes. Just make sure you had read up on assisted hatching and go very slowly and carefully. Check to make there are no active blood vessels that you could accidentally break as that may kill the chick. If you turn the shower on and do your work with each egg in the bathroom then you can keep the room humid and hot like the incubator. Are these your last two chicks? If not, be extremely careful when opening the incubator as not to sacrifice any that have externally pipped or are hatching.

 

[NewBoots]

Be sure to keep the membrane moist, we used coconut oil. Stop pealing bits of shell if you see veins with blood in them.

 

[careeka22]

Yes. Just make sure you had read up on assisted hatching and go very slowly and carefully. Check to make there are no active blood vessels that you could accidentally break as that may kill the chick. If you turn the shower on and do your work with each egg in the bathroom then you can keep the room humid and hot like the incubator. Are these your last two chicks? If not, be extremely careful when opening the incubator as not to sacrifice any that have externally pipped or are hatching.

I read the article posted here a few times. I just gently removed some she'll but left it to where it needs to push out. It's the last one from my first batch. They all hatched Sunday and Monday. I have others still working on it but I did it very quick to not lose humidity.

 

[Offshoreorca]

I read the article posted here a few times. I just gently removed some she'll but left it to where it needs to push out. It's the last one from my first batch. They all hatched Sunday and Monday. I have others still working on it but I did it very quick to not lose humidity.

Sounds like you have it all under control! Good luck with the hatching

 

[careeka22]

Sounds like you have it all under control! Good luck with the hatching

Lol idk about that! It's nerve wracking every time. So I made a safety hole and he's still in there chirping. The other I think I did hit a small vein but it stopped. Up to it now.

 

[careeka22]

It's out! It got its head out and was stuck. It's entire sac was wrapped around it's legs and it already pooped. I hope she makes it and very glad I assisted! It's exhausted.

 

[careeka22]

Final update about the cracked egg. After seeing it hadn't hatched this morning I went in to assist and it had got into the air cell but was upside down and had died. It was perfectly formed. I'm beating myself up for not just making one large hole it could have pushed out through. Hatching can really such at times. However my other chicks are doing great and I have a few left to go.