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He is very active...poor guy, I was worried cause he wasn't moving for quite a while so I thought he was dying...turns out he was sticky and he got stuck to the metal grating in the incubator. I am wondering if maybe my fan is on backwards and that is why I am having so much troubles. I had helped him...I don't like sticking my hands in the incubator or being involved in helping them hatch, but after the first chick that pipped had issues with fluids flowing in to his nose and mouth and drying, eventually suffocating him. I was afraid he would be the same so I made his pip hole a little bigger and pushed the membrane away from his nose a bit. I think I made the pip hole too big or something because around 11ish hours later or so he was looking like he was trying to zip but the hole was too big. Every few minutes he would push his head back like he was trying to push on egg but there wasn't any egg to push on. So i had read if you make their pip hole too big, sometimes it makes them unable to zip, dunno if that is true or not, so after a while, I pulled him out, kept him humid and made sure just to peel back the shell portion of the egg around in a circle, like a zipped egg, leaving the membrane and lid part of the shell in tact. I moistened the membrane and put him back in the incubator. After about 15 minutes he pushed out of the egg.
It is day 21 today, I think the other eggs were peeping so loud like they were because the baby was running in to them and rolling them around, cause now that he is out, the other eggs are peeping softly and more contentedly now unlike earlier.
It is day 21 today, I think the other eggs were peeping so loud like they were because the baby was running in to them and rolling them around, cause now that he is out, the other eggs are peeping softly and more contentedly now unlike earlier.
