When to help chicken out of the egg?

[dfgkfghggfasd]

Remove the end of that egg so it can back out

Is your advice to remove everything on the back or just the shell?
Can they not penetrate the white layer?
@chickens really

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Is your advice to remove everything on the back or just the shell?
Can they not penetrate the white layer?
@chickens really

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

If there is no blood under the white layer zip it round using a pair of tweezers so the end of the egg is open and the chick can get out it’s self. If the “white” membrane is stuck on the chick you might have to remove it all.
Not a chick but a gosling below that backed out itself after a Malpositioned pip ~

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ioned-gosling-coming-up-for-48-hours.1248892/

 

[Kiki]

What does “X2” mean?



I’m not currently at my house but last I checked it was.



Yes.

x2 = another way of repeating what the poster above said.
x2 = I agree about turning the egg back the way it was before the other chick moved it.

 

[Kiki]

No I do not think that chick is going to be able to break through the membrane.
You are probably going to have to help it all the way out now.


Can you see in the egg enough to be able to tell if it has already absorbed the yolk sac?

 

[dfgkfghggfasd]

I'm sorry to inform you that the chick died early Thursday (estimated between 1 and 5 am) morning.

Hopefully this experience has helped me be more prepared if it happens again.
Thank you for ya'lls help.

If any of you have any guesses on why it died. It may be interesting.

The strange thing is that it died an estimated 48 hours after making noise.

But, I though they could survive well past 60 hours (although longer than 48 does make it get weak fast).

For this reason I set an alarm to cut it out at about 50 hours to make sure it wasn't too weak and could get food. It died within a couple hours before the alarm.
(check original thread)

Was I wrong? What could have happened?

Edit:
Also feel free to continue the discussion. Especially for future instances.
This way we can help prevent future chicks from dying!

Before I let the trash company take the bird to its final resting place, is there anything I should look for?

 

[Kiki]

I am sorry.

Did you take the chick all the way out of the shell to see if it was fully developed?

 

[dfgkfghggfasd]

@Texas Kiki I was asked to **dissected it** in a 4H class. But I didn't realize how young the kids were and the leader decided to not let us cut the skin.

However, we did pull it out of the egg. It appeared to be fully developed.

 

[Kiki]

@Texas Kiki I was asked to **dissected it** in a 4H class. But I didn't realize how young the kids were and the leader decided to not let us cut the skin.

However, we did pull it out of the egg. It appeared to be fully developed.

Was the yolk said. Fully absorbed?
Was it stuck/glued like in the shell?

 

[dfgkfghggfasd]

Was the yolk said. Fully absorbed?
Was it stuck/glued like in the shell?

We easily pulled it all the way out. It wasn't supper runny or anything besides some goo coming out of its eye as seen in picture, so yes the yolk was absorbed.

 

[aart]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

Excellent article^^^

In the future do not use water or wet towels for moisture,
they can chill the egg/chicks and dry out too fast to be of any good.
Use coconut oil or antibiotic ointment.