Eggs have pipped in the pointy "breech" egg end. Been pipped for 24-36 hours, and no unzipping, yet. Hear a little chirping but I can see the beak moving to assure life is there. I'm using a Brinsea Octagon 20. Auto humidity control feature is constant at 53%.
Is it normal for peas to wait more than 36 hours to "unzip?" For chickens, which I've hatched countless times, they pip, then 24 hours later they usually unzip. I really do not want to play mother nature and remove the chick from the shell, but if we're at 48 hours after pip and no emergence, then I may intervene.
Intervene until the first hit of blood, then stop immediately, I know.
Is it normal for peas to wait more than 36 hours to "unzip?" For chickens, which I've hatched countless times, they pip, then 24 hours later they usually unzip. I really do not want to play mother nature and remove the chick from the shell, but if we're at 48 hours after pip and no emergence, then I may intervene.
Intervene until the first hit of blood, then stop immediately, I know.
I vowed I wouldn't help until Day 29 if the chick was still alive. This morning, it was still peeping, so I did my homemade natal surgery and helped the chick out of it's shell, and it is living. There was no bleeding at any time and the stomach had fully absorbed the yolk. In fact there is material inside the shell that resembles fecal matter but I'm not sure. There is another chick peeping as well, had pipped maybe 36 hours ago. my main curiosity was do peas, as a species, hatch differently from chickens. Seems maybe not.
