What went wrong? Nsfw pics

[emilyselberg]

Hi I am wondering if someone who has more knowledge than me may know why this happened.

Christmas eve at 8pm the first chick pipped. There was a lot of wiggling around.Two more chicks pipped. Christmas day afternoon a chick hatched. Christmas the original pipped chick was in the original position but I couldn't look at it through the incubator lid without the hatched chicks running towards my phone flashlight. Overnight another chick hatches. I noticed overnight the chicks had caused the original chick who pipped to have his pip turned towards the bottom of the incubator. 4am

Then in the morning he was back with his pip upright.6am so I left it alone. Worried I didn't see movement. This is such a small incubator I was worried about them rolling all the other eggs over.

I put the two chicks that had hatched and dried mostly in the brooder. 8/9am

They're doing well.

The original pipped chick was still in the incubator and didn't seem to be breathing but I left it alone. As when I read online that is what people said to do. I asked a chicken farmer and they said it was dead. I just wish I knew what went wrong he seems so strong being the first loud chirper and the first to pip

When I inspected the egg after death no zipping was observed. The beak/face was where the pip was. His feet was at the end of the egg where the pip is not.

I will include a picture of the egg on the 24th, 25th and today the 26th

Can anyone tell what may have been the problem? This incubator would not be my first choice. I incubated these eggs for my stepdad that was only wanting to start small.

 

[nuthatched]

It was malformed, so sorry

 

[emilyselberg]

It was malformed, so sorry

Thank you for your response. Does that mean it did not develop properly and would not have survived?

 

[DemeterAD9]

It is hard to know for sure but my guess is it was badly positioned in the egg. This can happen for a variety of reasons like fluctuating temps, not turning the egg often enough, or if the eggs were shipped in the mail. The goop on the chick just look like yolk in the process of being absorbed but I really haven't seen enough myself to say for sure.

All I will say is you can assist in hatching a chick if you time it right. I would of tried helping the chick zip after the 24hr mark of it first pipping. I've only used an incubator twice (with shipped eggs) and had to help at least one chick both times due to bad positioning in the egg. I've helped 4 in total and only 1 died but it had splayed legs and was breathing poorly after hatching so I wasn't terribly surprised.

A lot of people prefer to leave the eggs be and if they can't hatch on their own then that's that. I look at it this way, a chick that cannot start/finish the zipping process is doomed if you don't help. At least you'd be giving it a chance. Just be sure to always do some researching on how/when to assist the chick.

 

[emilyselberg]

It is hard to know for sure but my guess is it was badly positioned in the egg. This can happen for a variety of reasons like fluctuating temps, not turning the egg often enough, or if the eggs were shipped in the mail. The goop on the chick just look like yolk in the process of being absorbed but I really haven't seen enough myself to say for sure.

All I will say is you can assist in hatching a chick if you time it right. I would of tried helping the chick zip after the 24hr mark of it first pipping. I've only used an incubator twice (with shipped eggs) and had to help at least one chick both times due to bad positioning in the egg. I've helped 4 in total and only 1 died but it had splayed legs and was breathing poorly after hatching so I wasn't terribly surprised.

A lot of people prefer to leave the eggs be and if they can't hatch on their own then that's that. I look at it this way, a chick that cannot start/finish the zipping process is doomed if you don't help. At least you'd be giving it a chance. Just be sure to always do some researching on how/when to assist the chick.

Thank you for your response. The incubator was on an automatic turner and I took that out on day 18.

It could be that it was in an incorrect position.

 

[nuthatched]

Thank you for your response. Does that mean it did not develop properly and would not have survived?

Yes, that's very likely. If a chick can't hatch they have a 50/50 chance that it was either the egg size or the chick.