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I did the float trick with my eggs and only one or two eggs moved....all 8 hatched and are all very much alive. Honestly I would give it a few days, chick doesn't seem like she is filling the available non-air sac space yet.

They are in the coop with my broody hen, I took them out in a bin for pictures :) they weren't very cooperative to say the least lol Thanks everyone, guess I will have to try to be patient!

Thank you for your help, sorry for the delay in update. Unfortunately the next time I went out to check on her she had passed :(

3 weeks ago my broody hen hatched out babies and I am getting antsy to figure out who is who. We can only keep (up to) 4 and I would like to rehome the ones we don't keep together. We can't keep any roosters so I will be sad if I make my decision and one turns out to be a rooster. First up are...

Tonight I went into the coop and maran looks to be in distress :( I went in this morning to make sure everyone had food/water because it was a hot day today (we are in WI so 88 is considered a very hot day ;) ) nothing abnormal. My daughter checked on them before lunch, she said one of the...

I would bet they will. When my broody was hatching her eggs (once they started pipping) suddenly I had 2 hens, that had not been broody the entire 3 weeks, try stealing eggs from under my broody. I locked them away until the chicks hatched and then everyone was fine but you never know

Poor baby :( hope she heals well We had a rough day, mama kept moving off egg #8 that pipped this morning and then I came back and saw that either mama or the babies had pecked at the egg and it had blood. I put it back for a bit and then decided to step in and did an assisted hatch, thankfully...

Fluffing up nicely!

Got her this far and put her back under mama, hopefully she can handle the rest on her own

It doesn't appear to be injured but the membranes do look like they still have blood in the veins.

This is what it currently looks like

I have a broody hen who was sitting on 8 eggs, 7 of whom hatched yesterday/last night. The 8th pipped this morning. Mama hen moved earlier this afternoon and at that point there was a hole big enough to see the chick's beak and so I put the egg back under mama, just went out there and the chick...

Any way to sex newborn EEs? These 2 hatched yesterday, EE hen/buff orpington roo...I have a 3rd EE egg pipped right now too

She is beautiful! I think this is just up to you, no real right or wrong. I would definitely relocate mama and baby to floor level before baby takes a tumble though. #7 hatched last night and #8 pipped! I can hardly believe all 8 are actually going to hatch, I just hope #8 is a quick...

Well looks as though my little pullet has a baby brother. My other cuckoo/orpington egg just hatched... White dot on his head