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I placed him back in the bator, hoping the added humidity would help. Went off to the brooder to help out the chicks with pasty butt. Got called in by my sister about an hour ago - he died. I knew he had a very little chance of survival. I'm annoyed at myself for not giving him electrolytes or...

I had to move him since the other chicks were giving him a hard time. He's gotten very lethargic but he will get up and move about before settling again. The nub on his navel has dried for the most part and I'm waiting for him to fluff so I can do some cleaning. I placed him a small fish box and...

I'll check our stores of neosporing and vitasilina and see which one doesn't have painkiller in it. If not, Iodine it is with a little bandaid to make sure it isn't pecked at or scraped or something to that affect. I will take pictures in the morning. Ah, this chick has given me such a...

He hatched! I had to remove the membrane that he had already beaten up on the other side. He had ruptured his yolk sac. I let him for several hours and I took a nap. I was woken up by my sister and rushed to the incubator. And there was the little bugger! Walking around as if nothing had...

Update: Brown gunk leaked from the egg. as you can see, he kicked the inner membrane open with his feet. I suspect the gunk is blood and yolk. I peeked inside earlier and saw that he hadn't absorbed everythong so I moved him into a drier spot of the incubator so he can heat up and absorb everything.

I didn't bother to assist for the chick. I checked on him just now and I saw that he pierces the innner membrane with his foot and was trying to get out. I took the egg out of the bator and noticed that there was yellow residue within the tupperware he was in. I'm assuming the temp was too low...

Just checked up on the chicks. The chicks in the brooder are falling asleep. (There's only 3 of them.) The one with the umbilical cord still has it attached, but it seems as though he's finally calming down and trying to sleep or rest. The one who's air cell I exposed, he's trying to break...

The chick's beak is up on the smaller end of the egg. The hole on the side where it is surrounded by the intact outer membrane. For the second chick, it detached from the shell and it has a stringy material attached to its navel. The navel itself is red and jutting out, yiu cant see it very...

The bits of cracked shell occured after I opened the air cell. The little chick has been fighting to get out. I am unable to open it any more since I think I'm getting really close to the membrane. The inner membrane is currently dry in these pictures. The chick I just helped right now has...

I will attempt that. So far, that chick is holding up fine. I had to help another one that had its legs trapped and it was unable to zip and continued to create a bigger and bigger pip. Its navel is exposed (just a little bit) so I'm letting it rest in the incubator for the time being so it can...

I've been reading that for the past few days over and over again. Thank though sumi! I keep dabbing water on the membrane, it still looks very dark to me - however, this might be from the pecked blood vessel or because, from what I could see of the pip, the chick has very dark feathers/fluff...

Now, if you've been following my posts in the First Hatch of the Year thread, you'd know that I had a malpositioned chick that pipped the wrong end. This chick pipped on the smaller end on Monday at 11AM. I let it be for 12 hours and moved in to remove a bit of the outer shell at 11PM on that...