sticky chick

  1. F

    Help! I don’t know what to do!

    Help! What happened here? Eggs hatched naturally in nesting box with mama. Three other chicks already out and about under the mama doing well eating and drinking. Chick pipped yesterday and we saw pip was sufficient. Left it alone, today we check on it and see the zip happened of the bottom...
  2. R

    Does this chick need more time before I help it?

    This chick is glued to the membrane of its egg, but I can’t decide if it looks to veiny right now. He is chewing, so I believe he is still absorbing his yolk a bit. I think it is a bit veiny and I should wait longer, but I just want a second opinion. He pipped sometime yesterday evening, and...
  3. rachelb

    Very sickly chicks

    Good morning from a frosty France! I've incubated eggs over the years with much success but this time i've tried with my own eggs and ugh, not good. Out of 6 eggs, 3 hatched, 1 has died already the other two look very sickly. None of them seem to have had any energy at all, they have not...
  4. I

    Have I got a sticky chick???

    Hi there, So I am a newbie to incubating chickens. This morning around 7am my first chick hatched (it took 24hr to hatch after first pip). It got bottom got stuck in the shell and he was walking around incubator with stuck shell so we helped him out and cut the nutrients cord (that was still...
  5. Doobly

    HELP; muscovy yolk rupture or sticky chick?!

    Hi everyone. So after keeping Calls the last 8 years I decided to branch into muscovies. We incubated according to the main muscovy incubating article on here; this one and incubated dry until adding water at lockdown. I've listed everything I've done from first intervention in this Facebook...
  6. dawn secord

    feather development on chicks backs is weird

    incubating 6 shipped eggs. 3 chicks hatched from day 19 - 20. 2 chicks clearly in trouble and did assisted hatch morning of 21. chicks were stuck in the shell. I was able to successfully remove the shell from the inner membrane. Found the inner membrane not shrink wrapped. There was no...
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