Is this chick shrinkwrapped?

[SilkieFlo]

This egg came from a staggered hatch and I’m letting it hatch in the incubator with another one since the hen wasn’t sitting anymore and the eggs were cold. I had some trouble getting the humidity up, but it’s at 63% now.

Yesterday around 4pm this one pipped. See photo, it didn’t look like it pierced the outside membrane.


This morning around 9AM, no improvement. So I decided to see if it had pierced the outside membrane and had enough air, which it didn’t. Peeled a little bit of the outside membrane away and I saw the membrane being stuck on its beak / nostrils. Does this chick seem shrinkwrapped? Does it need its nostrils to breathe or do they breathe through their beak? It also look a bit bloody underneath the membrane. Like it leaked some blood? This was an oddly shaped egg without a pointy end.

Any advice is appreciated!

 

[SmiYa0126]

Is it breathing?

 

[SilkieFlo]

Is it breathing?

I removed a little bit of membrane from the beak, and now it’s breathing and chirping. It didn’t chirp before

 

[SmiYa0126]

Great! Can you use a paint brush to put coconut oil on the membrane around it until it's translucent?

 

[SilkieFlo]

Great! Can you use a paint brush to put coconut oil on the membrane around it until it's translucent?

Already done!

There isn't much progress though :/

 

[GingerRose]

OMG.
This is a flashback to July 22nd this year.
I promise, coconut oil and q-tips saved an incubator full of shrink wrapped chicks...

How many eggs do you have in the incubator?
How many have have pipped?

I would love for you to keep this updated, please...

 

[SilkieFlo]

OMG.
This is a flashback to July 22nd this year.
I promise, coconut oil and q-tips saved an incubator full of shrink wrapped chicks...

How many eggs do you have in the incubator?
How many have have pipped?

I would love for you to keep this updated, please...

So it's shrink-wrapped?

It was a staggered hatch from under a hen. I have one more left, that seems to be a day behind in developing. And 10 new ones that I put in the 'Bator on Wednesday, it's a mess :')

 

[GingerRose]

So it's shrink-wrapped?

It was a staggered hatch from under a hen. I have one more left, that seems to be a day behind in developing. And 10 new ones that I put in the 'Bator on Wednesday, it's a mess :')

I had to remove every chick from those eggs. It was a horrible 31 hours, no kidding.
So bad, I am DONE incubating chicks.
Our 2 ThermoPro hygrometers were calibrated incorrectly and a third, cheap hygrometer was probably accurate, the whole 21 days... My chicks were exhausted and thirsty..

 

[SmiYa0126]

It should be about 24 hours to hatch. After that you can assist.

 

[SilkieFlo]

It should be about 24 hours to hatch. After that you can assist.

I know, I think this one pipped way too soon.

I assisted it a few hours ago and the veins didn't seem fully absorbed yet. I freed it up a little bit, but I think I hit a vein. It's still alive though and chirping and breathing

I'm moistening it up with coconut oil every two hours.