Help with egg chipping

[Okitsme]

hi guys. I need a little advice. I have an egg under one of my pairs that has been chipping since saturday morning. I checked this morning and it still has not hatched and basically has not chipped much more since last night although it is still moving. Should i help it along or let nature take its course?

 

 

Thanks

 

David

[pigeonpete]

hi david, if its been hatching since saturday something is a miss, but the best thing you can do, is spit on the egg! sounds not nice but if the baby is healthy enough, should do the trick, also you could dunk the parents in warm water if they cant have access to a bath. did the other egg hatch? then  just let nature take its course mate. all the best

[Lightning McQueen]

hi guys. I need a little advice. I have an egg under one of my pairs that has been chipping since saturday morning. I checked this morning and it still has not hatched and basically has not chipped much more since last night although it is still moving. Should i help it along or let nature take its course?

 

 

Thanks

 

David

 

Might sound harse, but if it cant get out sign of weakness............and you will regret it later in the year, Survival of the fittest - gotta be cruel to be kind  ??)

[homer]

i have helped chicks out of the egg in the past but it has never come to any good.

     i helped 1 hatch last season and after a couple of days the parents stopped feeding it anyway. i fed the youngster myself for about 2 weeks but it was clear the bird was never going to shape up into a healthy pigeon.

    

 

 

 

 

[ALF]

PUT THE EGG IN THE BIN

[Guest shadow]

let nature take its course or dispose of it. If it's not strong enough to hatch on its own it will always be a weakling

[Back garden fancier]

Leave it to hatch on it's own.

[sapper756]

As said before, if a youngster can not chip out independantly, then it is a weekling and will be of no good, so do the right thing and dispose of the egg.

[Okitsme]

Thanks for the replies guys. I think I will let nature take its course. Its the only egg that was filled so will not have a round from this pair then. Hard luck. :'( :'(

[Okitsme]

Panic over, its hatched!!! *Phew*  ;D ;D ;D ;D

[THE FIFER]

i dont believe in helping them out ie, it must be weak or something wrong if it cant do it on its own also u can damage the bird if the shell is sticking in parts,

[Guest]

Had a sickening experience in 2007, and based on that would emphatically say 'no' to helping a youngster to hatch.

 

To cut a long story short, youngster may cut a hole in the shell a day or two before it is actually ready to hatch out - the yolk-sac may not be fully absorbed into its belly and the clue to that may be an egg with just a single small hole in it, and the youngsters beak clearly visible, apparently 'gulping' air.

 

A youngster hatches by pecking holes round the whole circumference of the egg. If it is doing that it is turning and stretching, so clearly the yolk-sac is absorbed, otherwise it would become detached, and if that happens the youngster quickly becomes drained of all fluid, and dies, and the parents and nestbowl get into one hell of a mess..

 

[THE FIFER]

if you look at a new born youngster you will see at the tip of its beak on the top a small pointed bit this is what gets moved around the shell inside and breaks the shell in two, it gets to the point thenn when the youngster just streaches out and it comes apart,

[homer]

if you look at a new born youngster you will see at the tip of its beak on the top a small pointed bit this is what gets moved around the shell inside and breaks the shell in two, it gets to the point thenn when the youngster just streaches out and it comes apart,

 

pointed bit is sometimes reffered to as an 'egg tooth'