External pip for 24 hours

[Kpenney]

Quite certain the answer is wait, but how long should you allow a chick to struggle to unzip? Noticed external pip last night, tonight the hole is bigger and can see chick inside. It’s peeping, breathing and doing lots of wiggling but is making slow-no progress and now it’s bed time. Do I leave it to continue? Should I check over night? Don’t want to go to bed and wake up to a dead chick in the morning when it was so dang close. *this is my fist hatch. Reading 24hours before assistance and also longer. Just want to make sure patience is the right move here.

 

[BarnyardChaos]

Quite certain the answer is wait, but how long should you allow a chick to struggle to unzip? Noticed external pip last night, tonight the hole is bigger and can see chick inside. It’s peeping, breathing and doing lots of wiggling but is making slow-no progress and now it’s bed time. Do I leave it to continue? Should I check over night? Don’t want to go to bed and wake up to a dead chick in the morning when it was so dang close. *this is my fist hatch. Reading 24hours before assistance and also longer. Just want to make sure patience is the right move here.

Yes patience is the right move. Very likely you will wake up to a hatched chick! Sounds like it's getting ready to zip out of there.

 

[AmeliaBedelia]

Have you read this article? I don’t have any relevant experience, so cant really give good advice. I think having an air hole already is a good thing, so probably you want to wait. Maybe they are still absorbing their yolk sac or something?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I'd be helping it out.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I have only done two hatches myself but with broody hens. My limited experience is that I lost chicks I didn't assist after external pip of 24 hours. I would be for helping a little. I just left the bottom of the shell on but got the little head out and thst chick is now a pullet. The other two I waited and didn't help died.

 

[Ryguy3684]

24 hours is about my limit before I assist. Patience is normally key, but there are circumstances where you need to intervene. That said, I've had plenty pip and not do a thing for about 24 hours.

 

[Wonder Quails]

Leave it for a few more hours, then if showing no progress, then it's time to intervene.

 

[gimmie birdies]

If after 24 hrs, I help only the pip, crumble the edge a bit if you see veins and or blood stop. If it bleeds dab with flour.