Pip!!!!!!!!

[BGcoop]

View attachment 1729151 I have an egg that pipped today anywhere between 10 and 3pm. We hot home at 3 and I saw the egg pupped, I heard cheeping, normal sounds but since then nothing. It has been 8 hours since I noticed. Is it normal for the chick to not make any sound for this long?

I am so tempted to take it out and look even though I know I shouldn’t.

And this is totally the wrong spot to pip but since I heard the sound, I thought it was ok and breathing. It must have opened right at the time I heard it cheep. There is also a hairline fracture on the lower right. I thought it was hair but from an another angle I can clearly see it is a crack line. There was a spot of blood right at the opening. It seems to have turned brown, about a 1 mm spot.

This is the best picture I can take from the outside. I used a flash light to shine it.

Jeez the wait is killing me.

Some of mine took close to 24 hours after the initial external pip to make it out. It seemed like there was no progress at all after the first pip and then the zipping only took about an hour and then they were free. DO NOT OPEN TO LOOK! I Had to open my incubator with one egg pipped to help an already hatched chick and even though I covered the pip with a warm damp paper towel immediately, that chick still got shrink wrapped and needed help getting out of the shell. He had membrane glued to his back for the first 24 hours after hatching (I named him turtle because of it)

 

[as110]

Some of mine took close to 24 hours after the initial external pip to make it out. It seemed like there was no progress at all after the first pip and then the zipping only took about an hour and then they were free. DO NOT OPEN TO LOOK! I Had to open my incubator with one egg pipped to help an already hatched chick and even though I covered the pip with a warm damp paper towel immediately, that chick still got shrink wrapped and needed help getting out of the shell. He had membrane glued to his back for the first 24 hours after hatching (I named him turtle because of it)

We are around 24 hours. The hole is the same. There is another egg pipped on the side, almost the same way but closer to the thick end. I was going to take out the egg but now I have to wait. I hope the other one will be quick.

How long does it take for the membrane to kill a chick?

 

[BGcoop]

I don’t know how long it takes for the membrane to hurt them. I decided mine needed help out because we were past 24 hours, I could see enough into the hole to see the membrane getting dried out. I tried to moisten the membrane with wet q-tips stuck through a vent hole in the incubator, and I could see the chick struggle with no progress. Just wait a while longer! I feel your pain though, waiting is the worst! If you still see movement, all is probably well. All of mine that pipped made it out on their own, EXCEPT for the one I shrink wrapped.

 

[BGcoop]

My first hatch

This is Turtle

 

[as110]

Keep us updated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My chick died inside the egg. I twas in the wrong position. Head on the right over the wing, both legs behind her head and neck was just curved once facing downward toward the belly. I don't even know how it managed to pip in that position.
It was a perfect chicken, yolk almost fully absorbed. There was no blood. It would have survived if it had been hatched with help. There was gunk in the nostrils. My guess is it drowned.

 

[Stacyoung13]

I am so sorry to hear you lost her. What about the others? How are they doing?

 

[as110]

I am so sorry to hear you lost her. What about the others? How are they doing?

One started to zip 4 hours ago. It should have hatched already but it zipped in the wrong direction. Kind of going from the middle toward the fat end, not around. This one is stuck too. I just opened the shell a bit and put it back in the incubator. I can’t see the yolk. I will read that file again.
It is chirping and moving but just pecks at the same hole.

 

[Stacyoung13]

One started to zip 4 hours ago. It should have hatched already but it zipped in the wrong direction. Kind of going from the middle toward the fat end, not around. This one is stuck too. I just opened the shell a bit and put it back in the incubator. I can’t see the yolk. I will read that file again.
It is chirping and moving but just pecks at the same hole.

As long as she is chirping and moving I would leave her be, make sure she doesn’t dry out. Others with more experience should chirp in soon. I would keep a close eye on her and do the hardest thing ever..... WAIT!!!!!!! Good Luck. Keep posting updates.

 

[as110]

As long as she is chirping and moving I would leave her be, make sure she doesn’t dry out. Others with more experience should chirp in soon. I would keep a close eye on her and do the hardest thing ever..... WAIT!!!!!!! Good Luck. Keep posting updates.

Yeah I posted in my original thread in the morning. I hope someone will see it. I slept a couple more hours. She is loud now, chirping away. No progress from how I left it.

 

[Stacyoung13]

Yeah I posted in my original thread in the morning. I hope someone will see it. I slept a couple more hours. She is loud now, chirping away. No progress from how I left it.

It may take up to 24 hrs or so after pipping, sounds like she is doing good if she’s chirping loudly. Just sit on your hands for awhile and see what happens.