Well I left them alone in pitch dark room for 2 hours so the others couldn’t pick at th open egg & came back just now to a beak sticking out! I put a whip with coconut oil up to through the vent hole to moisten it’s membrane & the beak came out. So it’s still alive! Not zipping yet. Just beak there resting, no zipping chewing movements. I’m pointing at the beak with atop in photo.
It’s been 24 hours since it pipped in middle. So it probably still has at least another day before zipping or intervention? This is day 21 for chicks & 70% hatched yesterday with two pipped today & 5 more eggs not pipped.
Well she didn’t make it. I woke up 7 am this morning & she was dead with her beak still out but no longer moving. She must not have been positioned to be able to zip. Had I known I would have intervened at 24 hours but it’s not something that could have been known.
I’ve got 11 other healthy hatchers.
So sorry! Glad you did get some healthy ones though! Share pics if you get a chance.Well she didn’t make it. I woke up 7 am this morning & she was dead with her beak still out but no longer moving. She must not have been positioned to be able to zip. Had I known I would have intervened at 24 hours but it’s not something that could have been known.
These are chicken eggs, the poster replied here because this is where they found helpful advice.
oh, nevermind...
