Help !

[Chicken Lover97]

My Chick Started Hatching , And Made A Small Hole But hasn't hasn't moved for an hour should I help it ?

 

[ChicKat]

IMO it would be far better to let your chick hatch at it's own rate and not help it.

 

[cochins1088]

After they pip, they can take a good 24 hours to hatch. Once they pip, they rest before starting to zip. It's a lot of work. If you help at this point, it's yolk sac won't be absorbed and it's blood veins in the outer membrane probably haven't shut down, so it would either bleed to death, or die from the yolk outside of it's body. There is a time when you should help, but wait at least 24 hours after the pip before you even think about it. I learned this the hard way from my first hatch. I got over excited and thought some needed help, ended up killing 2 of them this way and I think I even waited about 6 hours after the pip. I felt horrible, trust me, let nature take it's course. If it still hasn't made progess after 24 hours, I'll tell you how to properly help it out of the shell, but most likely it will be out by then.

 

[Chicken Lover97]

Ok Thanks So It's Normal That It Stopped Moving ?

 

[cochins1088]

Ya for a few hours, they will rest. They first internally pip, then they rest for nearly 24 hours, after the air in the air sac is used up, they are forced to externally pip, and then they rest again. It sould be moving some, but give it a little more time because as I said, helping it at that poiny would have killed it. Keep us updated!

 

[Chicken Lover97]

No Movement Since Yesterday ... I Think It Died ?:/

 

[ChicKat]

I'm very sorry that your egg didn't hatch successfully. Please remember that even in nature, with the best possible conditions, not all the chicks will hatch, not all the chicks that hatch survive.


There probably isn't anything that you could have done for this chick...it may have been weak and sickly. When you examine the egg, you may want to refer to some of the posts about what went wrong in incubation incase you had humidity or temperature too high or too low for the best chance of hatching.

sorry for your loss.

 

[cochins1088]

Ya, at this point it should be trying to hatch again. Sorry, Like ChicKat said, sometimes it just wasn't meant to be. The chicks that actually need help, usually end up with problems. I once helped one after the 24 hours only to find that it only had one leg, the other simply wasn't there. I helped it dry off and use bandaids and some other stuff to make a little temproary peg leg and he got around, but he ended up in the water dish and with one leg he couldn't get out. I was unable to save him, though he was cute. Hopefully you will have many other chicks, how many do you have hatching?

 

[Chicken Lover97]

It's Still Alive !, But Still No Progress :/

 

[bobbi-j]

As stated above, you need to leave it alone. If it hatches, great. If not, it was probably weak or sick and wouldn't thrive anyway. I know there are people who have successfully helped chicks to hatch, but oftentimes, one does more harm than good when doing so. I hope you have more eggs hatching. Enjoy the chicks that make it.