Should I help this chick out of the egg?

[Laney3535]

Hi! I am on day 21 of incubation. We have 3 eggs in the incubator. Two hatched yesterday night at like 11:40pm. And today I heard frantic peeping and I ran in to look and I thought it was the two already hatched chicks, but it's the chick that's still inside the egg..... The egg is rolling around and the chick is peeping. I can hear tapping but no pip. It's been trying for over 24 hours.... I took it out of the incubator and candled it. It's internally pipped and it's moving around in there. It's a bantam sultan mix. So a bantam cross inside a standard sized egg. A tiny chick in a big egg! Should I pip for the chick? I am worried. Should I help it hatch? If I go in. There and look I can hear it peep and the egg rocks back and forth

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

If you are sure the chick has been internally pipped for 24 hours and has not made an external pip yet then yes you could help by making an external pip for it. Have you checked out the assisted hatch article? Here it is ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching

 

[Laney3535]

I went back in to get the egg and it pipped!! Thank god I didn't want to do that! Myra it's been internal pipped got more then 24 hours.. It really started moving after i candled it!

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Oh that's great news that it has pipped on its own

Time to sit on those hands now and wait for it to hatch.

Good luck!

 

[Laney3535]

The chick hatched with a partially absorbed yolk! What do i do?

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Wrap it in a damp warm paper towel and place it in a cup or small bowl so it can't move too much. Make sure the beak is clear though so it can breathe. Place the chick and the bowl back in the incubator. You don't want it to rupture the sac. I'm afraid if it does there is not much hope for it. It needs to try and finish absorbing the yolk. With all the blood that I can see it has hatched too early and was not ready. In the assisted hatching link there is a part about a chick hatching with yolk.

Good luck I hope it makes it

 

[Laney3535]

Wrap it in a damp warm paper towel and place it in a cup or small bowl so it can't move too much. Make sure the beak is clear though so it can breathe. Place the chick and the bowl back in the incubator. You don't want it to rupture the sac. I'm afraid if it does there is not much hope for it. It needs to try and finish absorbing the yolk. With all the blood that I can see it has hatched too early and was not ready. In the assisted hatching link there is a part about a chick hatching with yolk.

Good luck I hope it makes it

My phone adds red to pictures for some reason. It made it look like there was way more blood then there actually was. She did seem to develope too slowly cause she hatched at day 22. She got out of her confinement area and was running around in the bator. Her sac still seems fine! We made her a diaper out of a damp paper towel and put her back in the incubator. When she hatched she was covered in this weird clear film. It was similar to a membrane but it wasn't the membrane..... It reminded me of dried egg whites. I had to peel it off her body so she could move her head and wings. Not sure what was up with that. So she dried out still looking wet because she still has egg white on her? It's weird idk.... She is a fighter for sure! She is moving around and has some energy but she's not fluffing up because her down dried plastered to her body.....

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Great to hear she is doing ok Does sound like she has hatched with albumen (egg white) on her from how you have described it. The usual cause of this a humidity problem. Here is a great article on incubation problems ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/egg-failure-to-hatch-diagnosing-incubation-problems
Once she is a little stronger you should be able to clean her up better with warm water so she can then fluff up. Just make sure she doesn't get chilled.

Wishing you the very best of luck with her I hope she continues to thrive

 

[Laney3535]

Okay thank you so much! I went to check on her and she's just sleeping I hope she makes it!!!! Weird thing is all of the other eggs hatched just fine with none of the egg white.... Maybe it could be a problem with this egg???

 

[Laney3535]

Wow! It's so much better!!! It's almost all the way absorbed!!!