feeling frantic.chick zipping for 17 hours.help

[justtoni44]

HI,This chick started out good but slow................beak is out.has not made progress for several hours.
Any chance it will make it.....not as robust as earlier..........It is about 3/4 the way around the egg,I hate this.....

 

[chickenwhisperer]

It has been at 3/4 around the egg for 17 hrs?
Or pipped for 17hrs?

All the ones I just had hatch were pipped for about that long, but once they started zipping they were out in about 10 mins or so . . .

Is it trying to push the top off and just cant, or not doing anything?

I told myself that the only way Id help a chick out is if the top is completely detached.

 

[brendapa]

How many eggs are still in the incubator unhatched?
How high is the humidity?
Have you been opening the incubator?
Are there any other pip's right now?
What kind of incubator do you have?

 

[justtoni44]

This is day 24.........only one chick out..24 eggs but first time and think I screwed up with the eggs before
putting them in the incubator.......
temp consistant 99.5
humidity 71
Kept the inc closed
have an lg
It has broken the shell about 3/4 of the way..going around like a circle about 1/3 down from the top.

 

[justtoni44]

this is my first experience

 

[justtoni44]

ok.....it broke a pip about 17 hours ago..........broke through the egg and started pushing out shell to form a
broken ring starting about6 hours later. Looks like it has a lid now with about 1/4 still attatched.
Sorry, hard to explain.