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    Help with an unabsorbed yolk sac

    I had an egg that frankly I thought was toast so I checked it and the fully formed chick is alive and really just not moving and it's day 20 or 21 still absorbing yolk. I left the egg attached to the bottom and seeing if the chick will perk up. Like I said it's is moving but it is breathing and...
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    Can a chick get shrink wrapped if it hasn't pipped yet?

    I'm curious about this too. I've had a horrible hatch. Finally had 3 hatch. One pipped and I could see the beak. One was working on a pip but was chirping in the egg. One wasn't doing anything but looked like it had broke into the air bubble inside the egg. A forth wasn't doing anything. All of...
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    Comment by 'Kbdiller' in article 'Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching'

    I helped these chicks hatch. It was a very long process. Any exposed membranes that had vessels that needed to be absorbed I kept moist. Once the membrane didn't have vessels I'd give the chick a chance to get itself free and then slowly help moisten and chip some shell away. Every chick could...
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    Our Crazy story

    We have a homemade incubator and the temperature hasn't been stable plus we suspect a problem with humidity. I get eggs from my cousin. We call this the event of genocide. My 5yo wanted to look at the eggs and knocked the incubator over. We lost immediately 13 eggs. They were definitely alive. I...
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