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It didn't end well she got out of the shell herself but was still attached to a small egg yolk she died half an hour ago devastated isn't the word not one chick out off 14 eggs I don't think I'll be trying again any time soon what heartbreak this is

Thank you Amy, will get some sugar water for her and I do too as it's day 20 now and had no others hatched I cracked a few and they were fully formed but dead poor babies just could not get into the air cell and they did have big yolks still? I'm guessing humidity problems? It's made me quite...

UPDATE - it's half 1 now and I noticed her veins are a lot thinner and hardly viewable where she is exposed so I gently really wet the membrane and used a dull nail cuticle item and gently eased the membrane off her head and she is wiggling more and opened her eyes and just glared at me opening...

Hi again well it's half 9 now, I put a layer of vasaline on her membrane and wrapped her in a damp towel before I went to bed at 2. I awoke at 7 with my toddler and her membranes were still wet I'm so glad she made it through the night poor chick, she is using her wing/foot to push on the...

Just googled it and nope no bacitracin hun anything else I could use could I not cover it with the damp cloth and add a wet sponge?

Thanks Amy could I ask what bacitracin is? And I will stay up as long as I can ando add the extra wet cloth with warm water and also cover the membrane range before I go bed as I will be up early to keep my eyes on on her.

One of my 14 quail eggs has decided to pip early, over 27 hours ago now so I decided to help her out and carefully started peeling away some shell to my surprise the top literally just popped off and now there's half an exposed baby quail chick with her head and beak poking out of her inner...