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I won't be able to take a video, sorry. It's unsteady on its feet but I just put little "shoes" on it to help flatten its toes and that seemed to help its balance. The humidity gauge and the thermometer were calibrated. I had another chick hatch out a couple days before and it went well. The...

Yesterday one (and what's looking like the only) BCM chick hatched. I had to assist as it was a bit stuck in the egg. It was a shipped egg and the chick was upside down but kind of sideways and facing away from the air cell. It was doing ok for a little bit but the membrane was starting to dry...

Ok. I was worried about assisting it but when I made the hole a little bigger for it I saw that the tip of its wings was actually over some of its beak, the way the shell was I think it was having a hard time getting enough push.

I’ll pulled a little bit more out and it pushed itself out pretty quickly after that. This is the shell, it’s didn’t really break that part. Does it all look normal? I’m really worried about the little thing. It keeps cheeping a lot.

Ok, thank you! It seemed to be moving up a little bit and I was worried it would suffocate itself so that was another reason I took a little shell off. I’ll let it be for now! I tried to put a tiny bit of warm water on the membrane but is there something that would work better?

My first (and possibly only) BCM egg is hatching! I got 6 shipped, only 4 weren’t cracked (the fourth I sealed with nail polish so I guess it was really only 3 that weren’t cracked). I’m not sure the hatching is going well (I’ve been watching it closely) but hopefully I’ll soon have a BCM!

Here is a picture I took right before I put it back. It pipped more towards the small end than the large end and away from the air cell. It’s been doing alright I guess? Could be now. I’m not sure. It seems to be my only BCM that has made it to hatching, it’s a shipped egg. It doesn’t seem to be...

I have a chick who pipped in the wrong end of the egg, it seems to be malpositioned as well. The membrane was drying out but it was still acting as is it wanted out. It has been 26/27 hours since it pipped. I didn't open the incubator until just now I pulled it out for about 3 minutes and gently...

I can't tell if this chick is shrinkwrapped or not, it has progressed since last night but the membrane looks a little yellowish. This chick pipped on the side opposite its air cell so I've been worried and watching it as closely as possible.

This is from this morning, about 24 hours after the first pip. Is still doing ok?

I can’t tell if this chick is shrink wrapped or not. It pipped opposite it’s air cell around 8 this morning, it’s been about 12 hours. It’s cheeping occasionally and moving. There’s a small slit/tear in the membrane where it’s egg tooth broke through a little bit. I know sometimes it takes...

We had our own egg hatch a week ago and this morning one of my BCM eggs pipped! It did pip facing away from the air cell so I'm going to keep an eye on it but from what I've read it should be alright. There are 2 other BCM eggs that I think actually developed so this one was more of a surprise...

So we have a Salmon favorelle rooster and one hen. I thought I grabbed the eggs from that hen but I’m thinking it might not have been? The chick has the extra toe, feathered legs and a big muff. But it has that dark stripe on it. If I remember correctly our rooster had a dark spot on him when we...

I looked at a picture of chick anatomy (I’m not very good at it) and it was coming from between the legs, about where it says “fluff” on the picture of the white chicken. I’m not sure if that counts more for vent or stomach. After looking at the other picture the vent is higher up then I...

It looked like the vent to me.

Last night I had a chick hatch. It all seemed to go smoothly but it wasn't getting up properly. When we checked it out it looked like what we thought (and the one article I read) was the umbilical cord but I saw it could have been the intestines? We snipped the bit without blood (not pictured)...

Oh ok. So it is still alive and acting like a normal chick, eating and drinking and cheeping, but we did snip it- not where the blood part was- so if it was intestines then I'm not optimistic. I looked it up and the only article I could find indicated that it was the umbilical cord and if it...

Ok the little chick surprised me and hatched in the hour I was at the barn! It’s spending the night in the incubator but when I checked it out and the egg shell I noticed there seems to be something around it’s legs inhibiting it’s movement. Should I be concerned or is this normal? I tried to...

Around 9 am today I opened the incubator to officially remove the egg turner and noticed the smallest little pip. I picked up the egg to move it and the chick inside started cheeping as it must have been angry for the disruption. It made a larger pip around 4:30 and occasionally I can hear it...

I had to open the incubator to add water quickly and when I did I heard faint cheeping and the egg was moving slightly! Now to just wait for that external pip so I can remove the turner for the hatch.