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HELP! Chick is hatching but there is blood.

Discussion in 'Incubating & Hatching Eggs' started by morninggloryhatchery, Sep 10, 2009.

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  1. Sep 10, 2009 #1
    morninggloryhatchery

    morninggloryhatchery Chillin' With My Peeps

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    Help! I have a chick hatching and there is just a big hole in it and there is also blood. Should i be worried? I am looking at the egg and the chicks beak is sticking out and it is chirping. There are no other pips. just a big hole. And blood like i said. WHat should i do?

    Thanks
     
  3. Sep 10, 2009 #2
    cw

    cw Chillin' With My Peeps

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    i would leave it alone and let it hatch
     
  5. Sep 10, 2009 #3
    morninggloryhatchery

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    Ok. Cause there was enough blood for it to have a few drops go down the egg. Do you think it is the chick or one of the veins in the egg? Thanks
     
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  7. Sep 10, 2009 #4
    cw

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    i dont know, pics would help
     
  9. Sep 10, 2009 #5
    cw

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    still leaving the incubator closed and let alone would still be my bet, just because you dont want to screw it up for all the others gettin ready to hatch
     
  11. Sep 10, 2009 #6
    farmin'chick

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    WHen my broodies opened pipped eggs, there was blood. Left alone for a while, they absorbed the blood and went on to the next step.
     
  13. Sep 11, 2009 #7
    morninggloryhatchery

    morninggloryhatchery Chillin' With My Peeps

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    Ok thanks for the help. It has been hatching for about 39/40 hours now if my calculations are right. The whole in the egg got a tiny bit bigger but there is barely any progress. Any thing i could do?
     
  15. Sep 11, 2009 #8
    Akane

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    It may have missed the air sac and pipped straight through the shell. That often results in blood.

    Do not do anything. Chicks can take 24hours to go from pipped to hatch. They can take even longer if they skipped a step and didn't pip into the air sac. Usually they break into the air sac first and rest for about a day absorbing some yolk before they break the shell and then they finish absorbing the yolk and all the blood in the vessels across the membrane before they hatch. Some chicks do this quickly but some can take 48hrs from the time they start hatching (break the membrane which is normally not visible except those few that miss the air sac) until they get out of the egg. Hurrying them along will only cause them to lose all that blood they need to absorb and they will die. It will also risk drying out the membranes for the rest and they will die.
     
  17. May 11, 2013 #9
    ally123123

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    Mine did the same thing today and I'm worried about him / her
     
  19. Jul 10, 2015 #10
    AnnieSantiago

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    What happened? Did the chick live?

    I just saw one of mine under the hen has a hole in it and there's a bit of blood. I'm scared :(
     
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