Help! Is this enough of a pip to let air in?

[junebuggena]

Leave it in the incubator. It will help motivate the others to start hatching. And you don't want to open up the incubator and have the humidity drop. Chicks do not need food or water for about 72 hours after hatching. Remember, it just finished absorbing all that yolk.

 

[Cerise1924]

Leave it in the incubator. It will help motivate the others to start hatching. And you don't want to open up the incubator and have the humidity drop. Chicks do not need food or water for about 72 hours after hatching. Remember, it just finished absorbing all that yolk.

Thank you for the reinforcement. I've read that and read that, and there is still this impulse to want to take the chick out. I'm so glad you brought in the calm and sensible voice of reason... because one of my other eggs has a pip now!

Many thanks.

 

[junebuggena]

A lone chick is the best possible cheerleader for those unhatched eggs.

 

[Cerise1924]

A lone chick is the best possible cheerleader for those unhatched eggs.

Haha, that lone chick is yelling and stomping and flapping and trying to crack out of the incubator. What happened to being tired after hatching? You are so right, she has got a hatch mate trying to come out and say hi.

 

[Chickies2020]

awwww any more hatch?

 

[Cerise1924]

Nope! This is where I learn what a novice I am. The imagined pip I thought I saw on the second egg was a tiny fleck of shell that skipped over and stuck, from the one egg that did hatch. The four eggs in incubation are still and silent as stones.

Despairing of any more peachicks pipping, I ran out and got two newly hatched Black Copper Marans as company for my tiny, sweet and lonely pea... who now seems like a big, bossy bully next to those little chicks!

awwww any more hatch?

 

[RubyNala97]

Nope! This is where I learn what a novice I am. The imagined pip I thought I saw on the second egg was a tiny fleck of shell that skipped over and stuck, from the one egg that did hatch. The four eggs in incubation are still and silent as stones. 

Despairing of any more peachicks pipping, I ran out and got two newly hatched Black Copper Marans as company for my tiny, sweet and lonely pea... who now seems like a big, bossy bully next to those little chicks!

That's good that you got friends for the pea baby. They imprint very strongly and get very lonely for a "mama" even with siblings. Trust me you'll have your hands full with that baby.

 

[Cerise1924]

That's good that you got friends for the pea baby. They imprint very strongly and get very lonely for a "mama" even with siblings. Trust me you'll have your hands full with that baby.

True words!! Baby pea loves to be with Mama. S/he tucks into my bathrobe for cuddles, and eats at the table with me. I can't believe this is a two day old chick! Those long legs... all that running and leaping!

I really hope the peachick will stop pecking at the tiny, sleepy Marans - biting their toes, wings, faces. I had to separate them. Is this just curiosity, I wonder? Or aggression? Territoriality? Jealousy?