Help! Baby pigeon not hatching!

[ChickyChickGirl]

Yeah i did! I had used this site before but i just never got around to making an account. I like live on this website haha.

 

[lightchick]

Me too!

 

[lightchick]

Ok so I did try to help him but it was too late, he was dead. I noticed that he seemed to have some of the skin of the egg shell over his beak so I think he suffocated and the inside of the shell was a dry. Thanks for your help everyone! I was to late but maybe if this ever happens again then I'll be able to catch it in time.

Thank you for your help.

 

[ChickyChickGirl]

Oh no!! That's terrible! I'm very sorry for you

 

[Hokum Coco]

Most likely the squab was dealt a bad hand from the get go genetically. I can not explain it but in some isolated cases pigeons decide not to feed a squab from the moment it hatches.

I over time have tried to save this squab and even with my experience hand raising squabs more then enough it never turned out favourably.

Other times it may be just a harder shell on an egg is all the difference. In future if you see the first crack it is not a risk to enlarge the whole about the size of a blueberry or pea. I usually use a match stick or toothpick or maybe even a needle.

I would use caution because some times it takes as many as three days for a squab to emerge out of the shell and leave the membrane of the egg behind without the risk of blood loss. I think helping it that much will not harm him one way or the other. That way it has a leg up and it does in my estimation give the squab a better chance of survival.

 

[ChickyChickGirl]

This si going to sound stupid but is Squab just another name for chicks still in the egg?

 

[Hokum Coco]

This si going to sound stupid but is Squab just another name for chicks still in the egg?

"there is no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers"
If you ask a question it makes you look stupid for 5 minutes
- but if you don't ask - you stay stupid for fifty years, so always ask questions in your life".

Cygnet is a term used by bird watchers to describe the off spring of swans.
Squab is a term used by pigeon fanciers to describe just hatched pigeons.

 

[ChickyChickGirl]

thanks! I've heard some people using the word squab and I was so confused haha.

 

[willygog]

I know this is an old post but , i know if the humidity is too dry eggs have a tough time hatching, if your worried, i have heard of dipping the egg in warm water a day or so before they hatch or spritz them lightly.. it helps with the egg being easily hatched by the chick.. shell is softer..