He really is gorgeous! Amazing that he made it out okay!! How many others did you hatch in that batch of eggs? update when you have a name for him!!!!!
This happened to one of mine (coincidentally the first egg I'd ever hatched!) But she was okay just took about 31 hours from 'pip to zip' she is called pumpkin
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/moving-egg-with-crack-instead-of-pip-hatch-day.1570502/
The thread with what happens with mine
A few tries later we successfully hatched 8 babas between 2 mamas!!!
Mama #1 incubated pip and squeak and Mama #2 hatched the 6 others who are still unnamed.
We had no idea that Mama #2 was sitting on eggs at all until her ducklings appeared in the poultry brooder pen with Mama #1 and she was...
A few tries later we finally got a couple ducklings last wednesday! They are called Pip and Squeak, but mysteriously the next day there were 8 in the pen! and another duck was trying to get in, it's still a mystery but what we think happened was that the other duck was sitting on eggs the whole...
I hatched my first chicks (Chickpea and Pumpkin!) in March, I volunteer on a smallholding and we have hatched quite a few there and have a lot of hens!
I've got Pumpkin (female) who is mostly BO with a bit of hybrid mixed in there somewhere (she looks very like a pure buff!)
And Chickpea...