Well momma bird got off 2 eggs yesterday after sitting on them well over 24hrs of the other 4 hatching and me putting a extra chick a few days older than the ones she hatched under her...so I went ahead and opened them up.. both still alive but looked like inner membrane was shrunk all around them...one had very shallow breathing and never even broke through so I opened were the beak was and put it in incubator the other one had its beak through membrane at least....the first one died probaby 4 hrs later, yolk sack not absorbed and I helped the other one all day yesterday every few hours and by the time I was going to bed I had the chick pretty much out of shell except there was clear mucus like thing stuck from belly to shell...so I wrapped baby in warm moist cloth and stuck it in bator hoping for best but not expecting much since it didn't open eyes and was real weak. Woke this morning to find eyes open and it floppin around in bator with more fight this morning membrane still attached so I clipped it off closest to shell so when it moved around it wasn't draggin and pulling on what was still attached to belly.
I know a lot of people say just leave it, weak ones ment to pass on...well this whole week has been my very 1st hatch ever and I was going to try and not lose any. I had no idea what I was doing really so between taking my time putting it back in the incubator and pulling off a little shell at a time...back in bator I was googling, checking you tube and searching BYC. I had learned it was a very doubtful baby would live...so far so good...we will seein a couple of hours how its doing . So far between the incubator, my broody and now my assistance 6 out of 7 hatched.
