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Well, unfortunately my little guy didn't make it Last night he started leaking yolk out of his umbilical area. I was reading about one bird that someone had that after this happened, he got better and was able to survive. So we were gonna wait until this morning and see if there was any...

I think thats what I'm going to do. I only have this one that is having problems, but I'm afraid to put him with any others for fear of them pecking him. So I'm going to put him in a seperate small brooder later today.

I hope your chickie gets better! How old is your chick? I ended up laying mine on a wet paper towel to make sure he didn't stick to the wire in the incubator.

Okay, so I finally pulled the chick out of the incubator to check on it. Cause it was just in the same spot. Turns out there was something hanging from it (maybe umbilical cord?) and it was caught on the edge of the wire so it couldn't really move well. It was a dried up string, so I trimmed it...

We got a few fertile eggs to try our hand at hatching a few, 10 to be precise. Yesterday (Sunday) was the 21st day, and some chicks started hatching on day 20 (Saturday) Out of 10 eggs, 7 hatched so far. Out of the 3 left, one feels like it never produced a chicken (the weight of it doesn't...