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Thank you for your advice and the link to the other page. As much as I hope it doesn’t come to that. I am very grateful to have a different humane option for the chick.
I have to look into some of the other things you mentioned and research them more before starting. But I will try and...
I was worried because the membrane still looks like it has the red veins. It makes the chick look like a tumor within the shell. So since it’s not drying or brown I was afraid to touch it and do more harm than good.
No, all 12 eggs were put in at the same time. And I followed the incubator directions to a T. Out of that batch only 1 hatched on the 21st day, 2 were stillborns and the rest were unfertilized. And then there was this one. On lockdown the temp stayed at 75.
This is the last chick in my incubator. I’m on day 26 and I did a water candling when I heard this little guy peeping inside. Afterwards I waited a few hours and heard no sound. So I candled to make sure they were still alive. After calling around I finally reached a farm where they told me that...