I am going to get some coconut oil to apply and leave it alone, I really hope I didn't completely screw this up, this chick is so important to me. I never thought it would survive since it's the only one of 14 that was even fertile my roosters were so young. I was really expecting it to be...
That's what I'm afraid of but also don't want to help if it's not.....this is the only egg that was fertile out of 14 so I have no others to compare but in my previous hatches they have at least pipped by this point ...a fox took out my entire flock and I was hoping for a few of their babies to...
Thank you so much for replying, I put it back in right after I did it and haven't touched it. Just worried because I don't see much movement at all. Do you think it's ok that I poked those small holes in the membrane, I was worried that might cause it issues.
I thought the chick was probably dead and opened the air sack end but could see what looked like a heartbeat or breathing motion in the membrane. I figured chick was breach and couldn't make internal pip so I used tweezers to make a small hole but it bled just a little so I used a wet paper...
I had a fox take out my entire flock and these hens were so special to me. I had a couple young roosters I had just given to a friend but had 14 eggs I wanted to try to incubate to have babies from my girls I lost. Out of those I had 1 fertile egg that had a baby at day 5. 1 out of 14 . I've...