Zipped egg but not coming out....what to do?

[selinagil]

Sweet!!!! I'm so glad it's ok!!!!! Post pics once they've all hatched!

 

[livin-green]

Well, I noticed that someone commented that they often have to flip off the tops when using cartons. I had another that was completely zipped and pretty active, but had still not flipped the top off.

I was reading another thread that suggested just opening the window if using an LG--lets out a lot less heat & humidity. I tried that to grab this one out. Same thing. It was not stuck as bad since it has only been a couple of hours, but a few q-tips with warm water and it's doing well!

Thanks to everyone for the input...probably saved at least two chicks so far!

 

[onthespot]

I pulled two out today that had pipped the day before and nothing since. After 24 hours they were still alive but had made no progress. I carefully removed them both completely from their eggs. They had both absorbed their yolks but were really sticky and I think they just couldn't move around to finish. Thanks to intervening I now have a beautiful pair, (looks like a girl and a boy) Blue Laced Red (Splash) Wyandottes. I rinsed them in the kitchen sink under slightly warm water and got the "sticky" off of them. They seemed to enjoy the rinse off. I then held them close to my chest with my hand, wrapped inside a bath towel that I kept moving them to a dry spot until they had comppletely dried off and put them in the brooder under the light. If I had not intervened, i would surely have lost them both. Their due to hatch day was yesterday.

 

[Backyard Farm]

Congrats On the Spot!!

It is always hard to know for sure when to help.... so wonderful when you feel that helping saved a little life or two.

Congrats!!

..... an interesting tread might be just stories like these...
ie... what were the circumstances.... what did you do or not do... what was the outcome.

maybe a good title would be "ER for the unhatched"

hmmm

 

[livin-green]

Okay, as promised. Here are a couple of pics. Since all the BCM look pretty much the same, I'm not sure which ones I manually extracted. I ended up having to do 4 total--3 BCM and an Orp. The Orp in the last pic is not the one I "saved"--it is still in the incubator and looks awful--a crusty looking mess!

In the brooder--

I am now wondering if the fan kit we installed for this hatch was the problem. It really seems like it was drying them out if they didn't hatch out fast. I even increased the humidity to the 70's and still had two more chicks stick after zipping....

 

[Bettacreek]

I have lost too many chicks "waiting" on them. I just had a hatch of coturnix quail, and three or four hatched, and the rest were just pipped, zipped or nothing. I helped the rest of them out (took me about 12 hours to prevent from bleeding them out). Now, all 12 are doing great. I have found that if you have to help one out, then you need to help the rest of them out as well, so I don't pussy foot around anymore, I just dig them out, stopping if there is blood and moving to the next, then letting them all sit for another 3 hours or so, then trying again. This was my best hatch so far, only loosing two developed eggs, who never pipped into the air sack. And, believe it or not, but three or so of the ones I helped, weren't even pipped, and they're still doing very well.

 

[Backyard Farm]

What cuties!!

congrats!!