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    Chick suddenly died-- Is 90 degrees too cool for a 5 day old chick?

    Hi All! She was 5 days old and she had a foot/leg injury (it looked like her middle toe wouldn't straighten on one foot, or that her leg also would not extend past a 90 degree angle). We didn't move her to the brooder until 36 hours later, and she seemed to be doing very well except for the...
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    Washing a new baby chick?

    Shipped eggs, 10% hatch rate, but I believe most of the chicks were late deaths, in the last week. 12 eggs to start 2 arrived cracked, discarded 10 set in the incubator; after resting in the egg carton in a box in my bedroom for 48 hours We set the temp to 37.5 on the incubator but we never...
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    Please help... 1 chick remains alive out of hatch

    I think It was exposure to bacteria, but I don’t know for sure. This was our first hatch, and of 12 eggs, 10 were fertile, 1 lives. They were shipped eggs, her hatchmate was an assisted hatch. After the assist, she lived about 24 hours and died I think the two chicks as they defacated in the...
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    Please help... 1 chick remains alive out of hatch

    Hi! My chick is one of 12. The final and only survivor Please help! She seems alright. I think she has a bum leg. Please watch the attached video, and share your opinion! She’s 72 hours old as of a little later tonight. She consistently was stuck on her back since birth— just kept running...
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    Washing a new baby chick?

    is a new baby chick supposed to poop all over the incubator? I have only been waiting for the chick to dry and stand steady on her feet before I taker her out of the incubator. She hatched on Friday at 3am.so as of tonight, 3am, It will have been 72 hours. She dried off after about 10 hours...
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    Assisted hatch

    It’s done! He’s finally free of the shell and completely hatched! I warmed filtered water in the microwave inside a little medicine cup that holds maybe 15 ml. I used a dropper from a vitam c serum, rinsed, and dropped water on the baby while he was in the incubator, just lifting the lid and...
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    Assisted hatch

    Ok, he pipped 48 hours ago but he’s only exposed from his shell for a few hours now. I’ll have to take him out of the incubator to do this; is there a way to do It without risking giving the chick a chill? Will the eggshell fall off on its own? And will the “glue” go away? Currently, his right...
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    Assisted hatch

    I spent the last few hours assisting the hatch of one of my chicks. He was stuck, 48 hours after the first external pip, and he got about an inch unzipped before he got stuck somehow. I removed little pieces of shell to clear enough away and eventually, after more than 50% of the shell was...
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    Thanks!! He’s also malpositioned! He is foot over head
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    Please help— I don’t want to lose my chick :hit I think she is malpositioned. Her foot is over her beak. I can tell that her upper body is bent to the left and her head is now underneath her right foot. You suggested to remove the top, finish zipping I went a little more and just freed the...
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    48 hours after external pip

    Hi guys! This little guy externally pipped and got his eggshell unzipped around his face about an inch, but stopped for some reason and hasn’t made progress in 24 hours. It’s been 48 hours since the external pip. Someone suggested assisted hatching which I started, and we were able to free him...
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    Here is a video of the underside of him... can’t make out what this is, but It looks like yolk under where his head is? Should I continue breaking some shell? Looks like he might come out when the shell where the x is marked is removed. His wing looks to be over his head and neck, and It...
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    Thank you SO much for all your help, I haven’t been able to get answers anywhere else! I removed the shell and membrane that was loose. When I started peeling the membrane that was blocking the area over her beak, I noticed parts of It are stuck to the babies feathers. Glued to almost. I...
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    I did this so far... I was nervous so I stopped, hoping she’d come the rest of the way out on her own. I included a pic of the shell I picked off, because under the birth the shell didn’t look as white which made me nervous to pull at it Should I peel the membrane back over the side that had...
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    Yay! Thank you so much for the good outlook! I will try this in a moment Is there anything I should use? We had to discard non fertile eggs on day 14, and the eggshells were very hard to break. I thought the eggshells hardened
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    Please view my video and photos above! I am now home, and will start assisted hatch if I have to, but I want confirmation if you can tell that I should step in. As of now, she is at 48 hours since fist pip
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    It’s a “magicfly” mini incubator. I read the humidity on the incubator lid. It was constantly the same reading, unless I lifted the lid and in that case after replacing the lid It always read that It lost heat and to a little while to return to the right temperature. Never more than a few...
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    I will be home in about 1 hour, so I will address it then-- he is still ok, not moving much, but there is movement from him from time to time. He's not actively trying to peck at the shell. I was misinformed, it seems. I thought 99.5 was the steady temp. I knew the sexing thing was just a...
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    Do you think thats what I did? Even changing the temp at day 7 by a half a degree and not incubating the whole time that temp?
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    First Pip was Wednesday Afternoon....

    :hit We have not candled since day 18, when they went into lockdown. I struggled to see what I was supposed to see. I dont know what Im looking at. But I do know, that 4 of the 5 unpipped eggs (plus the one thats still unzipping) were moving around like crazy in their eggs right before...
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