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lawatt said:
in case anyone is still awake! i am trying my very first incubator hatch, and the one not-shipped egg (from my own chickens) pipped around 10am this morning and has now hatched, hurrah! but the remaining 12 eggs were shipped (isbars), and of those, only one has pipped -- and it's the one i have a question about, as it first pipped this morning around 10am also, and has since enlarged the hole just the slightest amount, so that i can see movement still inside the egg -- but hasn't made any real progress in terms of getting out the egg -- and perhaps most importantly, has pipped at the wrong end of the egg, the pointy end -- here's this morning:


and here's now:


i'm pretty sure i should just leave it overnight, to see if it makes any progress -- but any thoughts on when to intervene, if it still hasn't made progress by morning?

thanks!!!
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as for WHEN to help, I let the chick tell me that... if he's just peeping normally I leave him alone. when he starts sounding frantic then I help
 
DMRippy said:
I was at an auction last week....bad auction....but I meet a contact that was local to me. she is going into whole foods selling farm fresh eggs (she said for $1 an egg wow!) anyway she want me to hatch her some chicks......yeah! 100 Marans 60 olive eggers and 25 super blue egg layers. she will need replacements down the road too hehe. she is actually my second customer that is going into the eating egg business. love to hatch and sell right away....hehe.
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cool!! good contact!
 
ozexpat said:
go to the hatching 101 link in my signature. there is assisting info there.


good luck!!
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thanks, i've read that page several times already...

ki4got said:
as for WHEN to help, I let the chick tell me that... if he's just peeping normally I leave him alone. when he starts sounding frantic then I help
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good to know! i just got up and checked, not a whole lot of progress yet but definitely still moving, and I *think* i hear peeping (there's another chick that's already hatched making noise too), but nothing that sounds distressed yet -- so i'll keep waiting.
 
ki4got said:
looks like he'll have a buddy soon enough. or is that his own egg he just left? can't quite tell.

I've got SFH hatching today... so far 4 out.
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that's the egg this one hatched out of -- there's one other chick that hatched last night, one of my own flock's crosses (black australorp x SFH), so they can be pals -- 11 isbar eggs remain, none showing any sign of pipping -- but i had crazy incubator malfunctions at the start of this process, so happy to give them an extra day or two in case any decide to kick into gear!
 
lawatt said:
that's the egg this one hatched out of -- there's one other chick that hatched last night, one of my own flock's crosses (black australorp x SFH), so they can be pals -- 11 isbar eggs remain, none showing any sign of pipping -- but i had crazy incubator malfunctions at the start of this process, so happy to give them an extra day or two in case any decide to kick into gear!
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just in case anyone wants the whole blow-by-blow process, here's video!
 

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