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Update: The last chick has hatched, also not shrinkwrapped. It did nothing all day yesterday in the incubator, just chirping. No progress at all. I was starting to get worried it had a defect or something, so in a latch ditch effort I put it under the hen for the night. I just went out to check...

This was already a staggered hatch before the feed store chicks, which is incredibly frustrating. I wasn't the one to set the eggs because my silly hen decided to hide a nest and I didn't find them for a few days, and since the other chickens had been adding to her clutch when I found them they...

Since my last post another one has hatched and it was not shrinkwrapped. I have one more left to hatch, it's pipped and I'm expecting to it hatch either overnight or tomorrow morning. The shrinkwrapped chick is doing fine now, very active. I wonder if something might've been bothering her while...

I checked underneath my broody for chicks around 2:45 this afternoon and found this guy shrinkwrapped pretty bad. Its hard to tell in the pictures but the membrane all around her neck and shoulders was really stuck to her. I helped her out and put her back under her mama, and she is fine and...