Helping Eggs Hatch | How To Save the Chick

If you try to do this you will be taking on a huge responsibility and the risk of hurting the chick. DO NOT do this if you are not comfortable and do not do this to help a healthy bird.

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[jackieclifton]

So glad I watched your video. Hatched chicks for 1st time. One chicks beak was stuck out of the egg for over 24 hrs. It was exhausted trying to get out. I followed your instructions and 3 weeks later. She is still doing great.

[justicedreams]

I helped two baby chicks this way! Both membranes were dry, and both had their heads sticking out. Now I feel good helping!

[queenofsuffering]

The day after I watched this video we had to help a chick out of its egg. 5 days later and he's thriving, this video saved his little life.

[chrislecky]

Finally someone with a degree of commonsense, , I'm glad you exist, i was beginning to think humanity is a total lost cause!

[jarradbaker]

Awesome video
You’re a champ
All the information I needed as I sit here on day 21 freaking out hearing chirping with no action.
Thanks so much

[leighpolson]

I am a kindergarten teacher and we hatch chicken eggs every spring. This year I had to help one of mine hatch. I waited a full 24 hours after he started trying before helping. The membranes were dry and he was pretty stuck. It was exactly like the last one you showed. I kept reading that you’re not supposed to help them, but he was a perfectly healthy chick! I can’t imagine just letting him die.

[ashlinero]

Thank you so much! After I watched one chick die struggling to get out of the egg for 14 hours, I found your video. I was always told not to help the chicks, ever, but I knew I had others that would also not survive if I did nothing. I saved 3 other chicks this way and they are all healthy!

[crystalo]

Aww i love your dog and how he is so well around the babies

[caba.vrc]

One of my chicks chance got stuck. The first pip in the shell was on the morning of December 12th. 8 hours later, no progress. OK, well it can take up to a day to hatch. The next morning. It was nearly 20 hours from the pip. Still nothing. He was trying to peck but was just hitting the hole and couldn't turn around. At noon it was over 24hr since the first hole yet no progress. I took tweezers and very carefully started to open the egg. I made a ring half of the way around but left the membrane. 3 h later nothing. I lift up the membrane up until I nick a blood vessel. I put it away. That night almost 35h after first pip I worked at it again. I managed to remove the entire shell ( taking breaks to see if he could finish, he couldnt) with no blood. When chance came out he looked weak and couldn't move. His sister pip burst out of the shell in 5 minutes though. I woke up the next morning with all hope lost expecting to find a dead lifeless chick. But.... There he was. A fluffy, yellow and very adorable little chick prancing around the incubator with no care in the world. Chance is now nearly 3 months old and is a nice and cuddly rooster along with his sister pip.
We called him chance because the odds were he wasn't goanna survive the night. 50/50 CHANCE

[ToriGoldsworthyREALTOR]

Just watched this after I watched one of my eggs go from wiggling then I checked under light and no movement. I decided to open the egg and found he was fully developed but he couldn’t break through and died in the egg. My other chick had been cheeping in its shell for 2 days decreasing in movement. I finally decided to try and help, I’m praying he has better luck.

[alyssagrowden]

This video was so interesting and educational I’m glad u made it. And I totally agree with on the topic if u can save the chick why wouldn’t u. So glad u did 😊

[audreys]

I had to do this with my ducks, they got stuck and couldn’t position correctly to hatch. So it was the 29th day and it had piped and a couple hours later it started to hatch and while moving got stuck. So I would get some of the shell off and leave the membrane and I would water it very little so it wouldn’t drown. Then a couple of hours later it tru moving a lot and their head got wrapped around the membrane and couldn’t get out. So I had to help it and I didn’t know what I was really doing because I’m 12 but I read up on it and now they are doing great and are so happy and healthy

[sonjz_]

thanks for the instruction!
i just freed my first shrink wrapped chick. it had been trying for over 24hrs now and membrane was getting dry.
i seems the head was stuck to the membrane so it couldn't continue pecking around.

i used a spray bottle to loosen up the membrane and pick off pieces of shell from the membrane.
i was able to tip the chick out of the half shell into the incubator and it basically flopped out, and the water helped separate the membrane from its head.

yolk appeared all sealed up, will see how it walks tomorrow.

ty!

[wordswritteninred]

I have been around chickens my entire life. My great grandpa, who passed away when I was 7yrs old, was a chicken farmer. So, the whole family always had chickens. I have personally helped numerous chicks hatch, throughout my lifetime. Too many to count. Of all the ones I helped, not a single one has ever been a sick, weak, or deformed chick. Just for whatever reason, they were unable to hatch on their own. On the other hand, I have seen chicks hatch, that were weak. And have deformed legs or feet. Yet, they were able to hatch. So you cannot really tell anything by the ability or inability to hatch. The only thing that might have some merit, is if the chick could not hatch, due to some trait of the egg itself. Maybe membrane too thick. Or something along those lines. But I think, that even at that, is not reason to not help. Because even if you go on to let that chicken reproduce, they only pass on half their genes. And if it were such a real problem, odds are, you will not simply have a couple with issue to hatch. And the problem would be very easy to see. So help those chicks out! You won’t regret it!

[KooChi]

In the process of hatching chicks now and thank you for this video. I lost one yesterday bc his beak was out to far but wasn't sure if I should help or not. Now I know I should have. Great video.

[CozyFanatic]

I am so thankful to see this video! I had 7 guinea eggs in an incubator and it was day 25 yesterday. There were 7 of the eggs pipped slightly. Last night our power went off for about 4 hours and I put the incubator on hot milk jugs of water. When the power came back on the incubator worked as usual. This morning one was hatched, and then to this afternoon the other keets hadn't come out any further but they were struggling and cheeping trying to get out. After watching your video a couple times I went in there and unzipped 6 of them! Two weren't viable but the 6 are doing ok, so far! I just unzipped them all around and got their heads free and they did the rest. Thank God for you and your video! <3

[sarahthompsonbreeden]

Thank you so much for your very informative video! You have a very kind heart and may God Bless you for it!

[Sprklnstrwbrygrly]

8:08, the dog with the chicks reminded me of my friend's Australian Shepherd. She panicked with worry during the hatching process but now she proudly lets them walk all over and around her.

[WRKKA]

I’m so glad I found this. Hatching my first two dozen quail eggs currently and I’m a new chicken owner as well so I’m so terrified of doing anything wrong. Thank you 🖤

[chanthebirdman]

This is such a good video. Thanks for making it visually easy to follow.