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Pipping - is this normal?

Jessica71

Jessica71

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I've hatched four clutches before - two of corns and two of trinkets - but this baby is in a slightly unusual position and I'm just worrying if it can get out ok - probably being over anxious! It's been pipping for 24 hours, and I was thinking it might have hatched by now, which is why I looked - I'm leaving several hours between observation sessions. It's moving fine - it's not a great photo but the head is just below the coil. Do you think I should leave it alone or try to make the hole a little bigger?

Thanks for any help.

Jessica
 

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Well it seems a bit further out than it was. The amel directly below and slightly to the left in the picture has hatched since - a very pretty little thing. I have to go out now for a while so it's probably just as well the little normal will have some peace, and I hope all will be well. I was just worried about twisting of the yolk sac or something - but I'm sure I'm worrying too much.

Here is the little amel. It's the third to hatch - I already have two normals, and there's this normal half out of the egg and two more amels pipping. They're from an amel female and anery stripe het amel male. So far it looks as if the amel is not het stripe or anery, anyway!
 

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If it were me I would try and make the hole a little bigger. Use your hands not scissors, just gently rip it a little. Hopefully the baby will turn rightside up.
 
Thanks for the advice. I've tried, but I can't rip it - not without disturbing the baby, and I'm concerned that every time I look at it or touch the egg, it goes back inside. I know it's possible to frighten them so much that they never come out or come out too early attached to the yolk sac (that's happened to me once - not from looking too much though). The egg is attached to others and I disturb them all when I try. So I'll just have to hope for the best.
 
Update - the baby hatched earlier, and is absolutely fine. Thanks all for reading. Here it is.
 

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glad all is well!!!

They can twist and turn and come out in funky ways! I have seen the same thing here, they can be pretty funny... coming into the world sideways.

Nicknamed wrongway!
 
Glad it hatched fine. I try never to mess with the eggs or babies when they are hatching. If they are meant to make it out, they will. If they don't, there's usually something wrong with the animal and attempting to mess with them often forces them out early. A lot of times the yolk will still be attached causing problems including dis-embowelment. Hands off attitudes are usually best.
 
Thanks all! I'm glad to know that for the future, Meg, because I didn't want to interfere either but at the same time wanted to be sure I was right not to! My gut feeling was telling me pretty much what you said, that it will come when it's ready and if it doesn't, I can't help by forcing it. It was funny because it pipped normally first, then the coil appeared and then it turned itself round again so its head was sticking out and then hatched.
 
They usually figure it out. In my experience, if they don't come out, there's usually something wrong with them.
 
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