Help! I don't know what to do with this little one!

[mommaofmany]

I have had one peeper ( he pipped around 9am, or at least that is when I noticed/ first checked) It has pipped almost perfectly in the middle, but closer to the pointy end.
The membrane is a very opaque looking white. ( It is now 4pm) The chick has not made any progress, he is just peeping along.

None of the other eggs have even started anything yet, ( it is day 20) and the peeper was laid the day it was placed in the incubator.



I don't know what to do. Should I try to dampen the membrane? Should I chip some of the shell away and wrap it in wet paper towel?

When should I consider doing these things?



( this is stuff that Ive read on the internet, so feel free to tell me that I am wrong lol)


For what it is worth he it is pretty loud

 

[salahzantout]

yes you can help the chick getting out of the egg, i have two chicks with similar cases with my hatch and i did help them get out of the egg... i helped them at first by breaking the membrane and it seems the egg shell was hard and they could not even continue by themselves. After that i took them off completely.

Note that you might see that the inner membrane has some blood lines still attached to the chick... now according to my experience if a blood vessel is still stuck on the chick keep it stuck on him and do not cut it... just put them both back in the incubator...

 

[mommaofmany]

I had to run out for about an hr and came back to a dead chick.

I "hatched him just to look. He was ALMOST perfect, he just needed a few hrs more to finish absorbing the yolk, But the white membrane was very, very rubbery when I peeled it off.

We put him back in, hoping that maybe he will revive.

He was completely flipped around and his wing was in his face too.

Another one pipped around 5 , at the correct end of the egg. I am crossing my fingers that it doesn't need any help

 

[chickydee64]

I had to run out for about an hr and came back to a dead chick.

I "hatched him just to look. He was ALMOST perfect, he just needed a few hrs more to finish absorbing the yolk, But the white membrane was very, very rubbery when I peeled it off.

We put him back in, hoping that maybe he will revive.

He was completely flipped around and his wing was in his face too.

Another one pipped around 5 , at the correct end of the egg. I am crossing my fingers that it doesn't need any help

It sometimes takes 24 hrs to hatch Give it some time................................
There is a thread on when and how to assist hatching and I cannot remember where I saw it.
Perhaps you could try search on BYC for when to assist...........
Good Luck

 

[salahzantout]

the same thing happened to my chick, the wing was covering his head and he cold barely use his beak to break the egg shell... the inner membrane and the shell were clearly thick and hard for him... what you should have done is to gradually break the egg for him which give him support - less effort - to continue breaking the egg... the last option is to remove him from the egg ...