PIPPED no progress

[IsaihaShel10]

So this baby Guinea popped 3 days early then it was supposed to. I thought it would be ok but 2 days later it’s made bo progress but it’s still moving in there. One Guinea has already hatched and we have 4 more pipped including the one I’m talking about. Should I help it? Or should I leave it

 

[abenardini]

So this baby Guinea popped 3 days early then it was supposed to. I thought it would be ok but 2 days later it’s made bo progress but it’s still moving in there. One Guinea has already hatched and we have 4 more pipped including the one I’m talking about. Should I help it? Or should I leave it

Assisting is always iffy IMO. Some will say to assist while others will say to never assist and let nature take its course. I typically do the latter, aside from unsticking a shell if the baby is shrink-wrapped and seems savable. I had one in my last batch I hatched. I think it got shrink-wrapped because it took so long to hatch. That could be the same with your baby.

If they've already made an external pip, you could take some plastic tweezers to increase the size of the external hole that was made by the chick to inspect if the baby is wrapped or not. Sometimes if you make the "pip hole" (man, that sounds weird...) bigger, they will hatch on their own I've found.

Now I'm only talking my experience with chickens, not any other birds. I've hatched some ducks but never guineas.