Recent content by Kpenney

This one is definitely filled with air. I have her on my chest right now and can hear what sounds like a little wheeze.

Chick just hatched and seems fine, but wondering if anyone has experienced this before?

They seem to be doing good! Spunky, vocal and are getting around. Not walking perfectly or eating/drinking yet. I did try to give them a little drink of sugar water, but harder said than done. Bums seem to be closing up nicely. I can see another external Pip on another egg, but it’s on the...

Oh dear, did I do the wrong thing? I was told by a seasoned chick hatcher to keep it moist and tuck it inside gently with a cuetip. Knowing my luck, I listened to the wrong advice.

Thank you for your detailed, kind, guide! It is very helpful.

Was able to push it back in, keeping it moist with coconut oil. The second one hatched as well, with an even worse prolapse. Humidity is at 60%. What am I doing wrong?

Not sure why I do this to myself! My second try hatching. I’m using a less than great incubator from a friend (never again). I had an early hatcher and went to candle my eggs before lockdown, and low and behold a Pip. Now my humidity is a wreck and had to assist this one as the membrane was hard...

Lil chick did not improve. It’s mobility wasn’t great and did not eat or drink on its own. I tried to feed sugar water and keep protrusion clean and dry. But neither helped. The sack got badly infected and leaked green fluid. Baby was starting to get lethargic, I made the tough call to end his...

Thank you, if it makes it through the night I’ll do sugar water tomorrow. I did put some Jack Newmans Nipple ointment on it. I figured if it was good enough to put on my nipple and safe for a newborn, it should be okay to put on a chick, haha. It has antibiotics and anti-fungal. All I could...

I’d say my hatching days will end after this one.

It’s still alive, peeping quite loudly consistently, so I know something is still upsetting it. I did work on trying to get some water and a little bit of moistened food into it and it is not peeping AS much. But when I could get some liquid in its mouth, it had a hard time swallowing. It will...

Wish I read this this morning. I didn’t dare touch it and now it’s dried. Afraid my little one is destined to die and not sure how to respond.

Poor little thing doesn’t look healthy. I thought this was just dried fluff because it was pipped and stuck for so long. But there doesn’t look like much fluff on or under the wing. I’ve washed it gently with water as best I can.

Inspecting it now, it isn’t coming from the vent at all. It’s coming from his belly. Oh dear.