Neck is behaving normally now, stronger and stronger. Looks like any other chick that just hatched itself now.
Wondering if it's okay to leave him in the incubator overnight? Still damp...
Oh my goodness!! Now I wish I had taken photos; I was so sure he was going to die! But now he is dragging himself all around the incubator. Not quite as vigorous as the others, but movement! Kind of following a healthier/faster chick in there. The poop is detached so I'm really happy it was...
Wow, okay. We filled the bathtub part way with hot water and got the bathroom nice and hot and steamy. My husband is attached to this poor little chick. We went into the bathroom with the partially open egg egg wrapped in a hot towel. I moistened the drying membranes (that were indeed like...
Shoot. Went to get him out after some really vigorous cheeping, but he was kind of bubbling at the mouth with some fluid. :( Maybe it was a lost cause from the beginning. So sad.
Okay. I've placed a wet sponge right next to him, should I open the incubator at intervals to dampen the membrane itself? It's so shrink-wrapped around him, I don't know that he can move. It's a chicken egg. I'm amazed, really, every time I go in there and his little beak is still moving...
During our incubator hatch, one egg had pipped but one of the other chicks turned his egg upside down. There was fluid draining out of the egg before I got to it - maybe a nickel sized amount of yellowish fluid on the floor of the incubator. I thought for sure he was a goner but he was still...