pip unzip hatching

  1. R

    Hatching chick

    My husband and I are hatching our second batch of eggs so we are still pretty new to it. We had this chick pip and start the process of hatching last night and has been stuck at this point since 12 last night and it is now 8:30 in the morning. It has been crying and the egg has been moving, the...
  2. pecker426

    Hatching egg queries

    Hi, So I have a mixture of three breeds in my incubator at the moment. Yesterday was day 19 and the first one pipped at around 21:00 that evening. Not much has happened which I was ready for but it has now been around 25hours since the initial pip, which I know still isn’t abnormal but around 6...
  3. kellym424

    Chick struggling to unzip

    I have a few silkie eggs in incubator that were due to hatch on Feb 13. One started that evening and finally came out a little before 1am on Valentine's day. Another one started piping at about 9:30 last night and at about 1pm today it made a full hole. However it has only made the hole slightly...
  4. Trinitydraco

    Help! possible stuck chick!

    So, I have a chick that has gotten about a quarter of the way unzipped but hasn't made progress in 3 hours and the chirps are getting less and less. Do I help? Is this normal or is my chick in distress!
  5. pikephillips322

    New chicken dad, eggs hatching! Need advice! PLEASE

    We are pretty new to chickens, weve had our silver duckwing bantums for about 6 months and our hen has been sitting on her first hatch and today we saw the first pip! So exciting! Later in the day we looked again and the egg that had pipped has started unzipping, its face is exposed and theres...
  6. H

    How long till I intervene?

    7 eggs in the incubator - 3 pipped that I can see. It's day 20ish (don't remember the exact time I put them in - sorry, I was kid free and it was a project I did while drinking wine... don't judge me lol). Anyway, this one I can see is alive and has been working since about 8am through this...
  7. Skipper81

    22 hours since pip no progress

    I have 1 egg that cracked shell so theres a pip but there is no hole.The egg held together. It's been 22 hours and I need to know if it's time to help or just wait. Tiny piece of shell fell offlast night where it cracked it yesterday morning. Membrane is white not tan. I hear peeping but I think...
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