HELP!!! chick pipped and there is blood...

[aurorarose25]

I had a chick pip early and when I looked at it in the bator there is dried blood all around it. I stared at the little beak through the opening and it was barely moving, bt checked on it this morning and I don't think its moving..

It looked like it went through the small end of the egg and got a membrane. Is it completely dead? Should I remove it before it contaminates the rest?

 

[ChooksChick]

Give it time! They can clot sometimes, from what I've heard- it may have a chance, but you have to leave it alone!

I don't think there's any chance of contamination, since it's not been exposed to anything the others haven't...and it's not going to hurt you to wait a bit.

Best of luck, little thing!!

 

[FenDruadin]

I would wait, too, and give it time. But it doesn't sound promising--the fact that it's not moving would worry me. But it might just be resting. I know when folks "help" ducklings out of their shells, there is sometimes a little blood, and the blood can clot. But the fact that he is pipping in the wrong end is a problem too, as usually the main blood vessels are down at that end and it's easier for the baby to bleed itself to death.

If it makes no progress for two days, I would remove it in case it starts to rot in there. If it pipped early and was in the wrong end of the egg, there was probably a lot else wrong with it anyway, so don't feel too bad. Nature has a pretty brutal method for culling, but there was nothing you could have done.

 

[MagsC]

I have had this happen too with mixed results. Sometimes it goes okay, sometimes it does not.

I would, as suggested, wait a bit.

 

[aurorarose25]

AAhh man I hate waiting I wish they had a timer that let me know what was going on, it would be less frazzel on my nerves. But I guess that's the excitement of a hatch right???

 

[ChooksChick]