HEEEELP! PROBLEMS AT LOCKDOWN!

[master-feather]

Hi i need some professional`s help, my little pheasant chicks are pipping the eggs but as they open the hole it seems that it gets sticky and they get stock in that point, then when i help them out they seem to have like some kind of glue sticked in some parts of their bodies, what can it be? my hygrometer says humidity is in 80% but i think most of the chicks have trouble getting out, that doesn't happen with my quail eggs, please give me some advice cause i really don't want my chicks to continue dying in the last part of incubation,

Thanks,

Alex.

 

[happyhens1972]

How long are you leaving them before you decide they are 'stuck' and help? They can go 12 hours or more between pipping that first hole and starting to zip their way out. This is normal, they are not stuck, they are resting, learning to breath with their lungs, absorbing their yolk and retracting their blood supply.

If you are helping them out and they are sticky, it could be that they haven't finished the process and you are hatching them out too early.

If your humidity is at 80%, that is plenty high enough to prevent the membrane drying out so maybe give them a little more time to sort themselves out?

 

[master-feather]

Thank you very much for your help, actually they are dying inside the shell, i helped a few, but they are not sticked to the membrane, they are stick to some king of "yellow glue", so they get stock and can't move to keep on braking the shell, the ones i helped had much more than 24 hours when i took them out, and they were even kind of dry, i don't know if have a fan in the incubator i use as a hatcher is doing wrong to them, thanks,

Alex.