pip 24 hours ago, no change!!!

[aussieheelr]

K it piped 24 hours ago and hasn't changed... no zip started and I can't hear peeping! What do I do, do I really have to wait it out???

 

[abanjaf]

Well, I think you may get a few different answers. From pip to hatch it shouldn't be more than 24 hours. If it is, then the chick may have a problem. If it were me, I would take it out and candle and see if you can see any movement and tap on the shell to elicit peeping. If you have a yes to either one of those than great, if not then I would carefully widen the pip hole and check and see if the chick is still alive. If indeed the chick is still alive, it may truly need help hatching. I realize that some folk are completely against helping, but I myself would have lost at least 2 chicks if I hadn't helped them out. The two chicks in question only had pip holes and they were carefully hatched out by myself. Both were my fault. I had been at work and the water had completely evaporated out of the incubator wells, don't know how since I'd just added water the night before but anyway.... The chicks in question were totally "cemented" to the inside of the shell. Wound up having to give one of them a complete bath to remove all the eggshell off of its little body. Both chicks are doing great, never had another problem with either one of them.

But the answer to your question is not so easy to answer. In my case, both chicks had fully absorbed the yolk, no blood vessels etc, no probs with bleeding, and they were the last two eggs to hatch. Is the egg in question the last egg to hatch? If not, you run the risk of "shrink wrapping" the other chicks that have already pipped. If you decide to remove the egg from the incubator while other eggs are still hatching, I'd recommend you open the bator in the bathroom with the shower water running on hot to steam up the room a bit before you attempt to do so. Perhaps other folks can give you better recommendations regarding assisting a hatch. Good luck and keep us posted

 

[chickenman17]

Be patient and wait. It is most likely resting and will start again later. Keep us posted!

 

[aussieheelr]

It's out!!! We're good

 

[debilorrah]

Is it ok? I wait the 24 hours for one of mine too and it was totally shrink wrapped. Took me forever to get that stuff off, but it is fine now.

 

[RedfogsFlock]

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YEAH!!!! chicken dance!

 

[aussieheelr]

yep it made it out ok when I was working my grave shift... DH sent me a picture <3 It's a little silkie

I do have one that hatched out that is pulling at my heart strings though. It's eye didn't develope in it's socked but lower on it's face. The eye socket lids are sealed shut with the buldge of the eye below it... it's a little CM. Don't know yet it I want to let it just be a Quazimoto chicken in my mixed layer flock or to cull now before finding out if it can live like a cyclopse.