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Here is a pic of what is attached to him. Is that a yolk sac?

Ok. He is out. He still has some yolk attached it seems. At least we hope that is the case. There is a small, less than marble sized, fleshy protrusion on his bottom belly part. He is out and wiggling around though. What will happen now? Will he just absorb that thing or will it fall off...

Quick! We need answers fast! He is almost out!

Quick question! He is coming out. When he comes out, should he lie on a dry paper towel or one that is moist?

So, we ended up opening a hole, trying to find his beak. He’s been laying there for a few hours now and started rotating and pushing more in the last half hour. He’s breathing hard, and we are wondering if we should help him out all the way or leave him to come out by himself. Will he be able to...

Update: We now see that at least one of the eggs under the hen is hatching. It has an external hole in the egg shell. So the chick/egg that we have in the house can’t be too far off.

A couple more questions: 1. If the chick is making vocalizations, that means that it has broken through the membrane inside and accessed the air pocket correct? 2. If it has accessed the internal air pocket what are the time frames we are now dealing with? The pocket can provide sufficient air...

The membrane was not exposed enough for us to see any blood or blood vessels. It is clean, at least what we could see.

Not sure what day we are on for various reasons. But we are close if not at the actual time when they should start hatching.

This is not my idea of a stress free time. I wish we had an incubator, that way we could at least know that the humidity level is adequate.

It has been peeping/making small chick vocalizations for more than 24 hours how off and on. Oddly, we go out to the other eggs that the hen is still sitting on and they don’t seem to be making any noise at all. Just this one. Perhaps it started making noise prematurely because it had its egg...

You can see that we put some wax on it to try to plug up the tiny holes created by the mother.

Here are some pics.

Our novice hen stepped on one of her eggs and made some cracks in it. There are a couple small holes where it looks like the membrane is punctured. We took the egg out of the nest figuring that the mother would just clumsily step on it more and destroy it totally. It’s currently in a plastic...