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Thank you so much for your reply Kristine! That is definitely my dilemma. I don't want to take chicks away from a good momma, but I definitely will just feel horrible if she kills or hurts one of them if I put them back. It is such a hard decision, and that is why I decided to ask all of you, so...

Thank you for your advice! I can understand the egg abandonment, do you think it could be the same for an actual chick that made it out of the egg? maybe they were sick and mom knew so she kicked them out? Although the first abandoned chick seems fine now. The blood was indeed in the place of...

Hi all, I have a one year old Black Copper Maran and Rose Crested Leghorn hen, who is a new mother. She was a great sitter and I was confident she would be a great mother. Well, for the first 4 chicks she was a great mom, they hatched yesterday and are fluffy and happy. This morning we noticed a...

Thank you diamond3girl. I appreciate your reply :) after a day of feeding her yogurt and massaging her crop, she appears to be back to normal! I have no idea what might have happened, but lets hope it has completely corrected itself. Thanks again for the advice! I will keep the vet in mind for...

I have a baby chick dilemma. I have a two week old black copper maran who has been healthy the entire time. I just went to check on her and found her lethargic and wings spread out slightly. When I picked her up, there was what I thought was water across her face. I then noticed her crop area...

This one is of her all wrapped up in her warm, wet synthetic shell (a.k.a. guaze and paper towels) Notice her cute little beak? she pipped and squeaked for water every hour ;) This was her in the membrane after we had already been nursing her about 18 hours. She kicked out of it with her feet...

Well, I cannot believe that we did it, but 24 hours after this post, her vessels dried up and she was ready to come out of her membrane! I can hardly believe she lived through this. Before this experience I had no idea that a baby chick could live in her membrane for 36 hours before hatch! I did...

Thank you so much for your reply Sumi. I will keep the set up as is. Could I be keeping her too wet? The poor dear literally has almost no shell. *shaking head* Do you feel my "sad excuse for an incubator" is warm enough? 95-100? How long after she gets out of the membrane (assuming he lives) do...

Last night when checking on the stage a hatching clutch, Momma got upset and stepped on an egg. The shell exploded off (all but a quarter of it) and there sat this chicken that was intact inside the membrane. Fast forward 12 hours, she is sitting in an aquarium, on top of a wet rag, wrapped in a...