Intervention: Helping Your Chicks Hatch

[destinydot6]

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i kind of agree my grandparents and parents said the same thing to me and i say the same thing to my kids when they see a chick sick in the farmstores
this is my first hatch and im on day 20 waiting for pips but if they dont then they dont and i would rather them be in piece then being picked at and such
just like when i candle my eggs if i seen a bad egg or one that dont look right then i gently put in the garbage and the kids want to see whats in it but i think that is disrespectful and tell them to leave it be,that it didnt make it. that and it pry smells!

 

[destinydot6]

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well it is day 19 for you the i think your temp is to high thats why its early but i would not help it out you should just put paper towels down for more humidity and get a different temp gage cause maybe yours is off but you also could have miscalculated the dates

 

[hinkjc]

Chicks will rest for long periods inside the egg. A pip on day 19 is not unusual, but it also does not mean the chick is ready to hatch. They can take 24 hours or more to fully emerge from the egg. They take their time and come out when they're ready (typically after they've fully absorbed their yolk sac). Good luck with your hatch.

 

[youngbiddy]

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Put your bator in your smallest, least frequented room (a bathroom is good) and use a humidifier!

 

[CaliBlueChicken]

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Thank you for this information, I helped a chick two days ago because the momma kept getting up off her nest and it was drying out. The little chick is doing fine now

 

[SJensen]

I had the same thing happen yesterday. The mother kept getting off the nest with the chicks that had hatched on day 20 and 21. On the evening of day 21, we saw that she wasn't sitting on the pipped egg and that the chick inside was peeping. The chick had pipped at the wrong end, and we didn't have a proper incubator set up indoors. So we decided to help using the technique by Fowlweatherfriends in this thread.

There are photos on my blog but to make a long story short, we helped it out then put it back under its mother with the others. Today it is fine! Fingers crossed that this was the right thing to do in the long run.

 

[emjay]

Because I am home sick from work and because I happen to have chicks hatching like popcorn, I cant read all 16 pages.
I have about 23 babies hatched so far from 42, with the majority of the unhatched pipping and zipping.
That being said, I have one chick in there who pipped and zipped yesterday, was the second chick to do that, he for some reason became shrinkwrapped, very hard white membrane, , I stuck a straw through the vent hole and got warm water on that membrane , I achieved alot, chick managed to get his foot free. The membrane keeps drying up, it appears the chicks head might be shrinkwrapped in top shell.
I want to take it out but due to the high number still pipping and zipping, do I risk losing healthy chicks for a chick that might not survive. I also want to give this one a fighting chance as it is still alive.
The whole , dont open the lid during hatching, really, what is my time frame before shrinkwrapping the others?
rThey arent going to shrinkwrap the second they get fresh air right? It s as long as I keep the humidity up.
Should I run a hot shower then take the bator into the bathroom?

 

[SJensen]

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Update: this 10 day old chick is just fine -- top of its class!

 

[chickenut52]

Hi i'm new to this forum but have raised chickens off and on for years. I have a hatching question (first baby dead) --it's hard to believe i never had a hen go broody--but my orp recently did. the first chick was peeping yesterday, seemed to make good progress with her shell. we could see the membrane and weren't sure if she'd suffocate because she was peeping so much and the membrane was very white. my father, a long-time chicken farmer told us (wrongly, i now realize) to pierce the white membrane so chick could breathe. that seemed to be fine, chick looked like she progressed some through the night, mom seemed fine, etc. this am however, chick further along but dead. very heartbreaking. what, if anything, should we do with other 2 eggs? one is peeping and there's no sound from other two...

it's so hard to know, especially since all of my earlier experiences were with incubators.

any help would be much appreciated,

 

[hlf1996]

I need help in deciding if I should help an egg or not. It is a silkie egg and it pipped at the wrong end (small end) and it just has a small little triangle taken out. It pipped at 9 this morning so it has been 9 hours but I have also read that it can take up to 48 hours for them to get out of the shell and most of the time takes 24 hours. It still peeps but not as much and is getting quieter but I dont want to help it if it is still absorbing the yolk, I also dont want it to die because I didnt help. This is very stressful, any advice greatly appreciated.