Low pip

[cheezenkwackers]

So I set a dozen chicken eggs for the Easter hatch, six turned out to be fertile. My incubator seems to run a little cool so I wasn’t surprised when my first pip wasn’t until last night. That chick hatched this afternoon. Two other eggs were pipped this morning. One seems to be really low on the egg (egg on the bottom). My thinking is to leave him until morning and intervene then if no progress has been made. Is that a good idea??? I am trying to sit on my hands.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I have had chicks hatch from the wrong end on their own just fine. I'd wait until morning to intervene if they were mine.

 

[oregonkat]

I agree, let it be until the morning and see how its going.

 

[Punkybrewster]

Ditto

 

[MLG1900]

Yes, Sit on your hands! When I woke up this morning, I had a chick that hatched upside down (i placed eggs in an egg carton for hatching.) The cap was off and it was covered in goo. I was not sure it was going to live. It could not even tell if it was breathing! But after about 30 minutes it kicked out of the shell just fine!

 

[cheezenkwackers]

Thanks y’all. That is what I figured but it is so hard to be patient!

 

[cheezenkwackers]

So, he has progressed a little. He has zipped about 1/4 the way around the egg. I guess more sitting on my hands and watching?

 

[MLG1900]

Yes, He / she can do it! GO GO GO! Watching and waiting is the worst!

 

[cheezenkwackers]

After three hours and no progress I chipped some egg shell away. The membrane was completely white underneath. So, I chipped the egg shell around the middle so all the chick had to do was kick to break the membrane and get out. I put him back in the incubator and about fifteen minutes later he was out. There is not way this chick would have survived without intervention. He is crying loudly from the incubator as he dries.
I carefully opened a peak hole in the remaining three eggs and all of the membranes were white and the chicks dead. Those three eggs never pipped.

 

[MLG1900]

After three hours and no progress I chipped some egg shell away. The membrane was completely white underneath. So, I chipped the egg shell around the middle so all the chick had to do was kick to break the membrane and get out. I put him back in the incubator and about fifteen minutes later he was out. There is not way this chick would have survived without intervention. He is crying loudly from the incubator as he dries.
I carefully opened a peak hole in the remaining three eggs and all of the membranes were white and the chicks dead. Those three eggs never pipped.

Oh man! I am glad you were able to save that one. And I am sorry that the other eggs did not make it!