Wrong side pip help...

[tjb]

first time I have had a chick pip the wrong end... What do I need to look for and when to assist??

 

[sylviethecochin]

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

Incidentally, Pyxis asserts (and my own experience concurs) that most wrong-enders manage just fine on their own. Good luck with your hatch!

EDT: Also, I missed it the first time I read the linked article, but because wrong-enders miss the airhole, they should be allowed an extra twelve hours to hatch because they pipped internally and externally simultaneously, and are therefore ahead of their siblings. But they still need the same amount of time to absorb the yolk/blood.

 

[tjb]

Thanks so much. I had left the house and when I got back the little one made it ways just fine!!

 

[cmom]

I have had some chicks that pipped the pointy end off the egg and they all hatched out fine too.