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Blessed, I just went through almost exactly the same scenario--Saturday, I watched one egg pip & then start to zip & stop, & meanwhile 4 others were hatching & I did not dare open the bator & compromise the hatch--well, it quit & I couldn't see movement & sure enough, it died - I removed it yesterday -- and doggoneit if another one started doing the same thing, well the humidity was way up there by now, and I could tell this hatch was NOT going well & so I snatched it out & helped it hatch. It's small & seemed weaker than the rest but had perked up today & is looking just fine. I swear those Ameracauna eggs are harder than other shells; seems like they always have to peck harder to get out or something....some of my 'eating egg' customers have told me they think the blue eggs are harder to crack - maybe so...
I have 2 hens in my flock right now that I had to help hatch out & I don't regret doing so a bit. I also have had to cull chicks that I helped hatch, but - you know, -- it's a LIFE, & I feel obligated to try, to at least know I tried!
Final tally here (now that I'm off my soapbox) out of 18 shipped eggs (Dipsy Doodle Doo Ameracauanas), 3 clears pitched on Day 10 (we expected some, she sent the extras very distinctly marked & asked if I would let her know as she was thinking she had a problem in one of her pens & sure enough, 2 of us were hatching & both of us had the same marked clears, so she was able to figure out where the problem was) and 3 pipped & died before they hatched (1 was abnormal, other 2 seemed normal, but who knows?) & 6 looked like they were scrambled on the long shipping trip here - orange mush - pitched them when I went home for lunch today (that was a nice appetite suppressant by the way)
I ended up with six very nice chicklets - and I think a couple of them are even BLUE (a miracle from me-who-always-hatches-black-chickens).
so overall - not complaining!
Maybe I ought to try Black Javas or Black Orps or something like that & then I'd get all blues or splash or purple w/pink polkadots! ^_^
I'd put the bandaid splint on it & some gentian violet if it were mine. (that purple stuff that stains everything). And yes, take it out of the bator, just in case it is infectious---wouldn't want to harm the rest that are in there!
Blessed, I just went through almost exactly the same scenario--Saturday, I watched one egg pip & then start to zip & stop, & meanwhile 4 others were hatching & I did not dare open the bator & compromise the hatch--well, it quit & I couldn't see movement & sure enough, it died - I removed it yesterday -- and doggoneit if another one started doing the same thing, well the humidity was way up there by now, and I could tell this hatch was NOT going well & so I snatched it out & helped it hatch. It's small & seemed weaker than the rest but had perked up today & is looking just fine. I swear those Ameracauna eggs are harder than other shells; seems like they always have to peck harder to get out or something....some of my 'eating egg' customers have told me they think the blue eggs are harder to crack - maybe so...
I have 2 hens in my flock right now that I had to help hatch out & I don't regret doing so a bit. I also have had to cull chicks that I helped hatch, but - you know, -- it's a LIFE, & I feel obligated to try, to at least know I tried!
Final tally here (now that I'm off my soapbox) out of 18 shipped eggs (Dipsy Doodle Doo Ameracauanas), 3 clears pitched on Day 10 (we expected some, she sent the extras very distinctly marked & asked if I would let her know as she was thinking she had a problem in one of her pens & sure enough, 2 of us were hatching & both of us had the same marked clears, so she was able to figure out where the problem was) and 3 pipped & died before they hatched (1 was abnormal, other 2 seemed normal, but who knows?) & 6 looked like they were scrambled on the long shipping trip here - orange mush - pitched them when I went home for lunch today (that was a nice appetite suppressant by the way)
I ended up with six very nice chicklets - and I think a couple of them are even BLUE (a miracle from me-who-always-hatches-black-chickens).
so overall - not complaining!
Maybe I ought to try Black Javas or Black Orps or something like that & then I'd get all blues or splash or purple w/pink polkadots! ^_^
I'd put the bandaid splint on it & some gentian violet if it were mine. (that purple stuff that stains everything). And yes, take it out of the bator, just in case it is infectious---wouldn't want to harm the rest that are in there!
