- Aug 26, 2011
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I have a chick that pipped just below the air space,and there was a small bit of blood on the pip hole. the chick has been quiet all day, and I have seen it stick it beak out a few times. Well finally this evening it has started to zip, but it is zipping the lengthwise direction of the egg AND it hit another vein as there is more blood now. She is peeping and seems to be okay, no blood flowing, so it must have stopped on its own. As she is zipping the long way on the egg, i am assuming she is malpositioned. I have read the amazing article on assisting hatching (used some of the info Monday when one pipped the wrong end and could not zip completely from that position, so I had to enlarge the zip for her,and she was able to push her way out a few hours later), I am just wondering if anyone has had a chick hatch from this position (and zipping the long way) without assistance, or if I should plan on helping her.
This is my first incubation since I was a kid (so really MY first, as they were my parents hatching when I was a kid). I had shipped eggs (3 breeds, about 4 dozen total, plus 12 quail eggs). Some had shipping issues(broken eggs in the batch so very rough handling en route), and then the incubator had some issues even though I had set it up 4 days before the eggs arrived, it had trouble holding temp, and would go too high and too low often. I got another incubator last week that is much more steady. At 18 days, 16 eggs were definitely not developed, another 16 looked like they had stopped developing late in the game (I did keep them as I did not want to be mistaken and throw away a good egg), and 18 looked just right, a couple of saddle-shaped air sacks, but looked good. On Monday, two quail hatched (one was upside down and required a little assistance), and one chicken egg pipped in the right place. The pipped chick began a perfect zipper the next morning, and started pushing out of the egg. I checked on her about 45 minutes later, and she was dead. She looked perfect, yolk sac absorbed, no blood anywhere, pip and zip were perfect,she was a perfect little chick who just did not make it out of her egg. So I was very saddened by that. Nothing else happened until the second chicken egg pipped, and has the problem I described above. So I am having a very sad and disappointing hatching. I am hoping that they are just late because there had been issues with the incubator that may have slowed development. And hoping this little fighter who is zipping the long way of the egg will come out okay. It has been about 10-11 hours since pip.
This is my first incubation since I was a kid (so really MY first, as they were my parents hatching when I was a kid). I had shipped eggs (3 breeds, about 4 dozen total, plus 12 quail eggs). Some had shipping issues(broken eggs in the batch so very rough handling en route), and then the incubator had some issues even though I had set it up 4 days before the eggs arrived, it had trouble holding temp, and would go too high and too low often. I got another incubator last week that is much more steady. At 18 days, 16 eggs were definitely not developed, another 16 looked like they had stopped developing late in the game (I did keep them as I did not want to be mistaken and throw away a good egg), and 18 looked just right, a couple of saddle-shaped air sacks, but looked good. On Monday, two quail hatched (one was upside down and required a little assistance), and one chicken egg pipped in the right place. The pipped chick began a perfect zipper the next morning, and started pushing out of the egg. I checked on her about 45 minutes later, and she was dead. She looked perfect, yolk sac absorbed, no blood anywhere, pip and zip were perfect,she was a perfect little chick who just did not make it out of her egg. So I was very saddened by that. Nothing else happened until the second chicken egg pipped, and has the problem I described above. So I am having a very sad and disappointing hatching. I am hoping that they are just late because there had been issues with the incubator that may have slowed development. And hoping this little fighter who is zipping the long way of the egg will come out okay. It has been about 10-11 hours since pip.
