Iluveggers
Crossing the Road
Thank you. I am going to wait until tomorrow, so I have time to read through the assisted hatch thread carefully and bring the needed supplies with me instead of starting and not having something there. I’ll candle at lunch and see what I see, and then try once the kids leave for dismissal if it is still moving them. It will be a learning experience regardless and I don’t want to rush it.You can't clog up the thread no worries. It doesn't look like it broke through the membrane to me but I could be wrong. It's hard to say from a picture but your options remain the same, you can wait or step in. Sometimes stepping in is just a precaution and you don't end up needing to do anything other than putting ointment on the membrane while avoiding the beak. It could be that the membrane is thick or dry for some reason and the chick needs assistance puncturing it. Avoiding blood vessels in the internal membrane is the most important part of assisting and there's sometimes lots of waiting in between helping.
Or you can wait and see what happens!
I would continue to wait for now. I've hatched quail but I've been told by a number of quail people to never help quail unless they have fully zipped and just have dry membrane. Their reasoning was that there's usually something wrong with the chick. I've hatched all sorts of different poultry, including quail but if I were to go ask Kiki the quail queen, she would say don't touch it, lol.
