problem during zipping: please advise

[beepbeepinajeep]

It is wiggling a little. One cheep. Not like yesterday. Do you think there could be a small chance or is the situation pretty bleak in your opinion?

 

[hollymh]

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Same thing happened during my last hatch, blood and everything the lil bugger just stopped so I left him hoping for the best I really didn't think he would make it, but the next morning he was out! I would just wait and see! Good luck!

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

Thank you! At least there is a chance I am really rooting for him... especially now that I can see his little beak

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Just to let you know that my first one to pip was the last one to hatch. I was really worried and because it was the last egg to hatch, I opened up the 'bator and listened to see if I could hear anything. The little stinker was still peeping!

Unfortunately I did have to eventually help him/her out of the shell as he had both of his legs out of the shell and the shell wasn't completely zipped yet. There was no problem and he's a little stinker now. LOL

Good luck with your hatch!

Laurie

 

[Hens_And_Chicks]

I had a couple of eggs pip like you described still hatch nearly 24 hours later. I also had a few pip but never break out. I think it's a crapshoot for survival - I vote for leaving them alone and letting the law of nature prevail with the strongest making it and the weaker succombing as difficult as that sounds.

Those I tried to assist, for the most part did not make it - one that seemed to be having an especially hard time and taking forever, I helped a little. When it finally did zip and get out, it was a deformed chick.

Nature knows what we don't.

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

We'll let nature decide then It is so hard when you can see their little beak moving & hear them cheeping so clearly.

He pipped this time yesterday, so maybe he just needs some more time.

The other eggs haven't pipped yet. I still hear them, but they aren't wiggling as much either. Last night was when they were due....

 

[MoodyChicken]

Start peeling the top of the shell off, not the side but the top where the air cell is. There are no veins there and if you do that you'll either see that he's stuck or you'll help him out. As for the other eggs, are their beaks in the air cells yet? Have they been like that for 24 hours? I would poke a very small hole at the top of the shell. If they don't pip soon they will run out of oxygen and suffocate. I did that for an egg last week, he hatched and is very healthy. He just needed some fresh air.

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

I intervened a tiny bit & it has started to hatch out. I haven't touched the other eggs.

When I was putting it back in the bator, the bulb exploded!!! The top half landed on top of the hatching chick. I don't think it got burned, but I think it was scared.

 

[Roc&VicknTN]

hey beepbeepinajeep

Please let us know how your chicks are doing. I'm reading and learning as I go, my husband and I have eggs in a incubator and on day 17 now. we candled to make sure there was growth inside and so far so good........we also see slight movement.

 

[Roc&VicknTN]

Well, we have 37 baby chicks

we started with 42 eggs but only 38 hatched (we had to dispatch of one due to birth defect) and 4 eggs didnt hatch....we gave the 4 eggs an extra day just to make sure they weren't late but nothing.. we opened them to find out so we can see what maybe the cause was but one wasnt fully developed and the other 3 were not moving at all so hard to tell.........guess it was nature

It was amazing to watch all the chickens hatch.........we stayed up here at the preschool until midnight and then made ourselves go back home and get up early to come and see how many hatched.........lol im anxious to see how well yall did with your babies.