What's the longest from pip to zip? 48 hour update post 9

[mycutekitties]

Baby looks likes it's doing fine....drying off nicely and is chipping and alert EXCEPT under it, near it's bottom it looks swollen and has no feathers. I can't get a good look since it's in the incubator. I don't remember any other chicks looking like that.
If it weren't for that I would say it was a success helping it hatch.

 

[crazy chook]

I would say Success!! Congratulations

 

[clothdiaperingmom]

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I helped 1 of my hatchlings out lastnite. It had been over 24 hrs and no progress. I slowly did it over a few hrs...giving it a chance to rest and progress on own. Which it didnt.
I too noticed the same thing.......hugest belly Ive ever seen and never had any others like that. Mine didnt move for awhile but was up and moving around when I got up. It sometimes falls over on its back and cant get over.
I had a ss hatchling do the same thing for the 1st wk of its life (hatched on its own). But it is fine now.