Is my chick shrink wrapped? If so what can i do?

[Andrea91]

First time hatcher.i went to bed and had humidity right. I woke up this morning to notice one of eggs has pipped and started off pretty good. I was so excited, but the I realized the humidity had dropped to 45%. I have managed to get th humidity back up. But I am worried if my chick has shrink wrapped or if it looks normal. I read that you should not try to assist unless absolutely need to. Is this that needs assistance or just leave it be? Also any tips would be greatly appreciated. My incubator is a still air of that makes a difference.

 

[SilverBirds]

I would leave it alone. It looks like it has already started the zipping process and should be out soon.

 

[Andrea91]

I would leave it alone. It looks like it has already started the zipping process and should be out soon.

Thank you!

 

[SilverBirds]

Thank you!

You're welcome! Keep us posted.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

It looks decently wet to me, keep an eye on it, do not go in to assist. Assisting can be very dangerous, the chick can bleed to death. Once chicks pip, that takes a lot of effort for them so they have to rest a long time before unzipping and coming out of their shell. Do not open the incubator, for the humidity can escape and can cause it to become shrink-wrapped. If you think you see a very dry membrane, I would post a pic on this thread and ask whether it is shrink-wrapped or not. Pump up humidity to 60 to 65, sometimes 70 is even necessary to prevent a dry membrane. Remember that chicks can take 24 hours to hatch after pipping. Once some chicks hatch, you want the humidity to be 60 to 65, because I have found that even though a high humidity is needed for chicks to hatch, the chicks in the incubator that are already hatched do not tolerate the high humidity well and will start to pant. Plus, once chicks hatch the humidity and temp raise naturally (because the chicks are wet) so you won't need to worry about raising the humidity too much anymore once chicks are hatched. I actually had to lower the humidity by taking some water out because so many chicks were hatching at once and the humidity was raising very rapidly! Once chicks hatch the others probably wouldn't get shrink wrapped (unless humidity was super low to begin with.)

 

[Andrea91]

It looks decently wet to me, keep an eye on it, do not go in to assist. Assisting can be very dangerous, the chick can bleed to death. Once chicks pip, that takes a lot of effort for them so they have to rest a long time before unzipping and coming out of their shell. Do not open the incubator, for the humidity can escape and can cause it to become shrink-wrapped. If you think you see a very dry membrane, I would post a pic on this thread and ask whether it is shrink-wrapped or not. Pump up humidity to 60 to 65, sometimes 70 is even necessary to prevent a dry membrane. Remember that chicks can take 24 hours to hatch after pipping. Once some chicks hatch, you want the humidity to be 60 to 65, because I have found that even though a high humidity is needed for chicks to hatch, the chicks in the incubator that are already hatched do not tolerate the high humidity well and will start to pant. Plus, once chicks hatch the humidity and temp raise naturally (because the chicks are wet) so you won't need to worry about raising the humidity too much anymore once chicks are hatched. I actually had to lower the humidity by taking some water out because so many chicks were hatching at once and the humidity was raising very rapidly! Once chicks hatch the others probably wouldn't get shrink wrapped (unless humidity was super low to begin with.)

Thank you! I appreciate the tips!