I'm so sad, I only had 2 silkie eggs developing, and when they both pipped I was so hopeful. One chipped a good sized pip, I could see the beak breathing. It got rolled into half an eggshell that had already hatched, and when I took the other chicks out today and rolled it apart, it was dead.
Another egg, a JG, pipped and halfway zipped, and then died. When I chipped away at the zip, it had rotated around in the egg, and probably couldn't breathe?
I have a third who pipped but the membrane around the pip is a little bloody. It's breathing but hasn't progressed at all since early this morning. I'm scared to intervene, but after losing two others at that stage, I'm also scared not to. It is a BCM egg, out of three that developed, one hatched, one seems to be a dud, and this one. How long should I wait?
Overall, this hatch did okay, out of 12 JG eggs, 9 hatched. EE eggs, 6 so far out of the 10 developing. The silkie & BCM eggs must have really been jostled during shipping, 1 of 7 silkies hatched (only 2 developed) and out of 21 BCM eggs, only 3 developed & so far, 1 hatched. I really want this other one to make it
Another egg, a JG, pipped and halfway zipped, and then died. When I chipped away at the zip, it had rotated around in the egg, and probably couldn't breathe?
I have a third who pipped but the membrane around the pip is a little bloody. It's breathing but hasn't progressed at all since early this morning. I'm scared to intervene, but after losing two others at that stage, I'm also scared not to. It is a BCM egg, out of three that developed, one hatched, one seems to be a dud, and this one. How long should I wait?
Overall, this hatch did okay, out of 12 JG eggs, 9 hatched. EE eggs, 6 so far out of the 10 developing. The silkie & BCM eggs must have really been jostled during shipping, 1 of 7 silkies hatched (only 2 developed) and out of 21 BCM eggs, only 3 developed & so far, 1 hatched. I really want this other one to make it