Helping a Failure to externally Pip

[ZeiaZeia]

Can any expert hatchers explain how to help a failure too externally pip. I had a beautiful blue Australorp chick yesterday in the egg I could here the baby chirping. All the others eggs had hatched but this one. I tried several times to make my own teeny tiny pip but it would bleed so I would cauterize it with a silver nitrate stick. I kept waiting. I took the top layer of egg shell off of the egg. I left the internal membrane intact. Then I kept waiting. Eventually and finally the chick absorbed all of the blood in the veins …..but died because there was no external pip and suffocated. If this happens again I was wondering how we make a pip without making the bird bleed out only in these extreme circumstances when the bird needs assistance. Thank you.

 

[casportpony]

Sorry for your loss. Where did you make the hole? This article by @Pyxis shows how to make a safety hole.

Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry

Preface If you need immediate instructions on how to assist a hatch, you may skip this section and go to the next one, where the instructions are. To start with, I want to address the fact that some people think assisting during a hatch is wrong. I respect the decision to not help during a...

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• Jul 11, 2017
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[HeatherKellyB]

I'm so sorry for your loss

 

[ZeiaZeia]

Sorry for your loss. Where did you make the hole? This article by @Pyxis shows how to make a safety hole.

Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry

Preface If you need immediate instructions on how to assist a hatch, you may skip this section and go to the next one, where the instructions are. To start with, I want to address the fact that some people think assisting during a hatch is wrong. I respect the decision to not help during a...

• Pyxis
• Jul 11, 2017
• 4.96 star(s) 190 ratings
• Comments: 212
• Reviews: 125
• Category: Hatching Eggs & Raising Chickens

I had put one hole on the side of the egg. But the membrane repaired itself and closed back up. I actually have a very hard time seeing through the egg to find the air cell. I also don’t have a lot of experience. That’s a good article although I still don’t know how to find the air cell to make the safety hole. The chick was upside down and I had started breaking the egg open on the wider side of the egg which in this case was the wrong side of the egg because the head wasn’t where it usually is on the wider side of the egg.

 

[casportpony]

When they are upside down it can be very hard to find the beak.