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Make sure the chicks have something like paper towels to walk on. They can get splayed legs on slippery surface. Happy your hatch worked...

Thank you for asking. Yes! All 5 that pipped, hatched. I did not assist. I'm concerned about my ameraucana bantams. Their legs seem...

Curious your eggs hatch?

Warm, wet rag.

I thought maybe my chicks backs weren't drying, but I think it is egg residue. Should we rinse them and put them back in the incubator...

It seems to be egg residue. The back feathers are stuck down. Should we rinse it and put it back in to dry?

Off the top of my head I used Bacitracin a petrolium jelly ointment. You want to be care full of what you use. Water will just...

This other one has its break through and keeps open and closing his beak, but that's it. Should I peel some shell off?

1 of the 3 has its break through. The other one has the shell off and slits in the membrane, but it's been like this for many hours...

I have a chick that has been hatched for 9 hours now, but the feathers on the back still looks wet and thim and you can see it's skin...

We have a different one that started breaking through, but the three I posted about originally haven't progressed. The one egg had...

I haven't seen it rock any more for at least a couple hours. The other one has a hole all the way through, but no further action and the...

I would leave them alone. They can take up to 24 hours to totally break out of the egg start to finish. They have air in there from...

What if they break the shell and not the membrane and there's no other movement or noise?

I have eggs in my incubator. Today is day 21. We didn't notice when the eggs started to crack. One chick was vigorous and has...