We've had 2/5 eggs successfully hatch in the last 12 hours. The third egg was moving quite a bit about 11 hours ago. We woke up this morning and the bottom had cracked open, but there is no movement, noise, or progress, and it looks like the membrane is still intact but dry. Is it possible the two hatched chicks cracked it open? Does this egg look like a lost cause at this point? Humidity is at 65% and steady. Is it possibly shrink wrapped?
Shrink wrapped?
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I've never experienced a hatchling crack open another egg.
Shrink wrapping is always possible. Has the incubator been opened at any time in the last couple days??
Shrink wrapping is always possible. Has the incubator been opened at any time in the last couple days??
The hatched chicks can't have cracked it open. It looks like the chick in the egg started to unzip but perhaps couldn't.
Is the membrane yellow or brown? That indicates it has dried out a little too much. Sometimes the chick takes forever to hatch and it dries out no matter what the humidity is. I like my humidity to be 70%+.
If it was me I'd whip the egg out and have a closer look. Sometimes the chick isn't positioned quite right to unzip completely and hatch by itself. If it is still alive it will likely need assistance to hatch.
Is the membrane yellow or brown? That indicates it has dried out a little too much. Sometimes the chick takes forever to hatch and it dries out no matter what the humidity is. I like my humidity to be 70%+.
If it was me I'd whip the egg out and have a closer look. Sometimes the chick isn't positioned quite right to unzip completely and hatch by itself. If it is still alive it will likely need assistance to hatch.
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The incubator has been closed since lockdown, which was 9pm on Thursday. First egg hatched successfully at 11:50pm on Saturday. Woke up at 7am on Sunday to this one like this. It's now 12:43pm Sunday and nothing has changed. The other chicks that hatched are still in the incubator and seem just fine. One other egg has pipped and seems to be progressing okay. Slower than the other, but there is progress. This is the only one with no action, even though it was the most active 12 hours ago before it had hatched at all.
I think the thing to remember is that not all animals are meant to survive. You can't save everything.
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The membrane is paper white. We bumped the humidity up. Nothing. Just pulled it out. I don't see an egg tooth or anything resembling a beak or an eye anywhere near the opening. Peeled back a little more shell but didn't mess with the membrane. It's super dry. No visible breathing. Popped back in the incubator. Not sure what to do.
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If there's no movement then I'd say the chick has died. A live chick would be peeping and opening and closing its beak. Sometimes that happens and it can just be one chick out of a batch where all the others hatch just fine. It doesn't sound like humidity was the problem if the membrane was still white.
Don't beat yourself up because it does happen and that's just a part of hatching.
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Thank you. We're glad we have 3 healthy chicks, but this was a hard one.If there's no movement then I'd say the chick has died. A live chick would be peeping and opening and closing its beak. Sometimes that happens and it can just be one chick out of a batch where all the others hatch just fine. It doesn't sound like humidity was the problem if the membrane was still white.
Don't beat yourself up because it does happen and that's just a part of hatching.
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