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  1. maineteacher

    help!

    Your response made me cry...I became so attached while nursing these helpless little chicks. Thank you for your reassurance that I did well.
  2. maineteacher

    help!

    I am wicked attached and emotionally drained...they both died today
  3. maineteacher

    help!

    Ah man! I came in this morning and he was dead. I should have slept at school :( Then my second chick died quickly late this morning. The family I got my eggs from wondered if why these eggs/chicks had so many issues was because of cross breeding. They had given me 24 eggs and only 2 hatched...
  4. maineteacher

    help!

    He is back on his feet!!!! Earlier I suspected he might be dehydrated so while he was lying, looking like he was dying, I used the eye dropper and gave him water and he actually swallowed. About an hour later I checked on him and he was on his feet! So I gave him more sugar water. I am not...
  5. maineteacher

    help!

    Sad news...he was doing well but took a turn for the worst today. He is still breathing but is laying flat out on his belly and weak. I am really sad. I thought he was going to make. I worked so diligently.
  6. maineteacher

    help!

    Thank you for your help. I haven't experienced this before either but wanted to help the little chick as much as I could. I bathed it again this morning and when he dried he looked somewhat fluffier. Still some bathing to do but didn't want to overwhelm him. He took the sugar water well and...
  7. maineteacher

    help!

    Thank you for your help! So like I said i bathed the yoke covered one with warm water and a cotton ball to help unstick one wing, his leg and his eyes...how important is it to completely clean him up? He still looks wet but it is just the dried yoke. Should I continue to wipe him down...
  8. maineteacher

    help!

    Yes, he has hatched out...i helped him last night but this morning I noticed he had dried hard yoke over his feathers. I gave him a warm wash while under the heat lamp. He is walking around but still not fluffy because of the yoke. I will try feeding him with sugar water as you suggest...what...
  9. maineteacher

    help!

    I have been hatching chicks for four or five years in my second grade classroom...i have one chich that after 24 hours i decided to help hatch...there was some yoke not absorbed and he is very dried...i had to help him unstick his wing and leg and he is still sticky/dried...should i try a warm...
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