First time Hatcher - HELP

[Rainbowegglover]

Hi guys. First time Hatcher here. Is this egg ok? Starting pipping at 6am (day 20) and now it’s 10.30pm. It’s stopped chirping and I can’t see any sort of movement. Has it passed away?? Wahhhhh

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi there, welcome to BYC!

It's probably resting. How many more eggs, any pipped yet?

Have you tried waving a flash light, peeping, tapping, or anything to see if it wakes up? Where's your humidity? And temp? What bator?

Is it still day 20 right now? Where is your general location?

That membrane is looking a bit brown (dry)... @WVduckchick, I always value your experience in these situations... as I am pretty hands off hatching more than an assist-or. TIA

 

[chicken_lady_38]

Hello. hatching can be scary. I have hatched out so many chicks. a good thing I do is make it think there are other chicks by peeping. Peeping encourages them to come out. If it is still alive when the others come out it will probably work harder when it hears them. its important to make sure your humidity is at 60-65% sometimes mine goes a little bit higher when hatching with my big incubator because humidity doesn't hold well in mine. If I think the membrane is too dry i will carefully but quickly pull the egg out and spray it with warm water then put it right back without disturbing the others too much. don't do too much water though because you don't want to drown it. And I wouldn't freak out too much yet because its pretty common for a chick to take 24 hours to hatch.
hope this helps.

 

[Rainbowegglover]

Thanks guys! Humidity is around 72%. No other guys have pipped yet and I hear no chirping. No sound from the partially zipped egg either. Sigh I guess I will just wait - today is the 21 day

 

[WVduckchick]

Sorry for the delayed response, and I’m sure it’s too late now to be of help now, but when one starts to zip, and makes good progress (at least 2-3 inches worth of “actual” zipping) then if they stop for more than 15 minutes or so at one time, I go ahead and break the cap off and let them finish pushing out on their own.
I have had ones stop zipping half way around the shell and die. My lavender orpingtons were really bad about it.
So in my opinion, once a full zip is in the works, they are ready to be out. They should only stop for small pauses, the zip should only take 1-1.5 hours at the most, from start to completion.

 

[Rainbowegglover]

Oh hatching is nerve wrecking - the chick passed away. It’s so sad unexpected by product of wanting to hatch your own chicks. I’m hoping the rest have better luck

 

[Rainbowegglover]

Woohoo 6 hatched. Not bad for first go on shipped eggs out of 12.

 

[WVduckchick]

Woohoo 6 hatched. Not bad for first go on shipped eggs out of 12.

congrats!