Zipping

[NJpineyflock]

Ok so I am hatching guinea keets for the first time, I had 2 eggs externally pip yesterday, one hatched this morning (about 24 hours later) the other may be having trouble but I see it moving and it has a large pip hole. Membrane looks good not brown and doesn’t seem to dry. I have not opened the incubator at all since lockdown and my humidity has been steady at 70%. Ok I knew you guys would want that info that’s why I got it all out of the way. As far as the egg that pipped but hasn’t hatched, it was poking its beak through the pip hole for the first 24 hours, after my first chick was born it rolled some of the eggs around a bit and I no longer see the other chicks beak just some feather sticking through the pip hole. Here is my real question, is it zipping and that’s why I don’t see it’s beak anymore? And how do you even tell if a keet is zipping, an internal pip is obvious but from the one that hatched I saw the external pip, not much else then boom it hatched so I’m not sure how people can tell if a keet or chick is zipping.

 

[MGG]

Ok so I am hatching guinea keets for the first time, I had 2 eggs externally pip yesterday, one hatched this morning (about 24 hours later) the other may be having trouble but I see it moving and it has a large pip hole. Membrane looks good not brown and doesn’t seem to dry. I have not opened the incubator at all since lockdown and my humidity has been steady at 70%. Ok I knew you guys would want that info that’s why I got it all out of the way. As far as the egg that pipped but hasn’t hatched, it was poking its beak through the pip hole for the first 24 hours, after my first chick was born it rolled some of the eggs around a bit and I no longer see the other chicks beak just some feather sticking through the pip hole. Here is my real question, is it zipping and that’s why I don’t see it’s beak anymore? And how do you even tell if a keet is zipping, an internal pip is obvious but from the one that hatched I saw the external pip, not much else then boom it hatched so I’m not sure how people can tell if a keet or chick is zipping.

What day are your keets on? Heres a picture of a quail chick zipping. It looks like they're unzipping the egg.

 

[MGG]

Here's a better pic from online

 

[NJpineyflock]

They are on day 27. Locked down on day 25 first pips yesterday morning on day 26. I definitely didn’t notice that with the first keet but I wasn’t watching super close I think it just zipped so quick I didn’t notice. Just checked on the one that didn’t hatch yet and I does indeed look like it is zipping. So I assume that’s what is going on. Thanks so much for the pic it was hard for me to find info on what a zip alone looks like.

 

[NJpineyflock]

They are on day 27. Locked down on day 25 first pips yesterday morning on day 26. I definitely didn’t notice that with the first keet but I wasn’t watching super close I think it just zipped so quick I didn’t notice. Just checked on the one that didn’t hatch yet and I does indeed look like it is zipping. So I assume that’s what is going on. Thanks so much for the pic it was hard for me to find info on what a zip alone looks like.

im not sure now if it is zipping.My hatched chicks keeps rolling the eggs around and it’s hard for me to see. Definitely still seeing it’s beak in the pip hole. I think it is stuck, it’s been about 30 hours since it pipped. I don’t want to open the incubator to help it at this point cause I still have other eggs some of which haven’t pipped yet. I expected them to hatch a tad late because my temps were about 1.5 degrees low of the first 48 hours of incubation. Might try to help it out later when my wife gets home from work so I have another set of hands.