Piped on lockdown day on the wrong end!

[turkeybirdpecky]

I was going to go totally hands off this hatch but now I'm worried about this one. Eggs were set at like 10pm on the 26th.

The bator wasn't set up for lock down yet and we could hear chirping. I candled quick to mark the air sack and when i got to the 44th egg I realized it was pipped on the side of the narrow end, and the membrane was turning brown/drying at the edges. I put coconut oil on it and pulled off a couple small.pieces fo shell just to try and see if i could see anything. I put it back for the night and set up lockdown.

It's a small olive silkie/maran ameracauna mix egg.

Now I'm worried and am wondering if they will be a be to get out at all.

 

[turkeybirdpecky]

Thisnisbthey egg in question but There are 2 more piped so maybe its going to be ok?

 

[LaFleche]

Smaller eggs that are set on the same day they were laid will pip/hatch one or two days earlier,
but pipping on lockdown day 18 has me thinking that your incubator temperature is/was too high.

 

[casportpony]

I thought this post was helpful

When chicks pip outside the air cell like that, they need a longer interval between pip and zip. Think of it this way: instead of an internal pip, they had to make an external pip. Internal pipping usually happens 12-24 hours prior to external pipping. So they need that extra 12-24 hours to rest and finish absorbing yolk before they are ready to hatch. They may hatch on their own, but often they need help because the membrane gets too dry or because they are positioned in a way that makes it hard to zip out.

I had one that pipped outside the air cell in my last hatch and she made it. I enlarged the hole just barely when she had been pipped for 24 hours, saw blood and stopped. Then waited another 12 hours, and peeled away a little more. Then waited a few more hours, and peeled away about half the shell. We put her back and she pushed out the rest of the way on her own.

Good luck to both your chicks.

 

[casportpony]

Smaller eggs that are set on the same day they were laid will pip/hatch one or two days earlier,
but pipping on lockdown day 18 has me thinking that your incubator temperature is/was too high.

Think of it as an "internal pip".

 

[turkeybirdpecky]

Those are all very helpful.

It is a smaller egg and my temp is at 100.2 because my house is colder, esp. At night.

That is a helpful post you had copied.


Oh, I guess, the others are internally piping inside the shell and this one could only do it where it was, where I could see.

I was preparing my heart to help him Out but he is very active and half way unzipped!

 

[casportpony]

Those are all very helpful.

It is a smaller egg and my temp is at 100.2 because my house is colder, esp. At night.

That is a helpful post you had copied.


Oh, I guess, the others are internally piping inside the shell and this one could only do it where it was, where I could see.

I was preparing my heart to help him Out but he is very active and half way unzipped!

I don't normally assist until all of the other eggs set on the same day have hatched and are fluffed up. At this time, it's usually safe to assist.

 

[turkeybirdpecky]

Getting a leg out in the world!
she's out!!

 

[casportpony]

Getting a leg out in the world!
she's out!!

Congrats!

 

[turkeybirdpecky]

Oh but you know what we noticed? She's missing a toe on each foot!