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[Kellyjenny]

@MGG @DucksAreBest everyone

 

[DucksAreBest]

Hello! What's wrong?

 

[Kellyjenny]

I have 11 eggs in the incubator I was fine kept cool they're starting to pip they're all pipping upside down I have one that has it's air sack on the side that's alive.

 

[Kellyjenny]

What to do if that one starts pipping or if that's one of the ones that are pipping on the bottom if the air sacs in the smack in the middle

 

[DucksAreBest]

So they're pipping not on the wide end of the egg?

 

[Kellyjenny]

They are but there all upside down except one whose air sac is pipping right in the middle of the egg I saw it when I candled it and I was fine but now I'm reacting a little differently about the situation. Is there anything I half to do or just watch and be patient. Should I turn the ones pipping facing down upward or should I leave them alone.

 

[DucksAreBest]

Well, the eggs should not be upside down, but since they're positioned for hatching it might be too late lay them on their sides. @CluckNDoodle @MGG?

 

[Kellyjenny]

Ok thank you so much. I will do it now.

 

[Kellyjenny]

Ok can't do it one little chick decided to pop out and roll all The eggs around you know how that goes it's going to take a breath and keep my eye on things cuz I don't know what else to do you guys are great support for me

 

[CluckNDoodle]

The air cell will draw down significantly right before hatch and appear to be "in the middle" of the egg and that's perfectly normal. If they pipped externally, in the pointed end, that would mean they're malpositioned but there isn't anything that needs to be done. Most of the time upsidedown pippers still hatch perfectly fine without assistance and then occasionally they need a little help at the very end if they start to zip and get stuck because it's smaller for rotating in that end. Another thing to keep in mind when they pip in the pointed end is that because they make both the internal and external pip in one go when pipping upsidedown, you can expect them to take twice as long to hatch. Fingers crossed all goes well!

Image shows how the air cell draws down before hatching. This one is internally pipped and made an external pip just moments after I took this picture.