15+ hr pip

[aart]

I'm not sure but I don't think wrapping it in a wet paper towel is a good idea.

It's not, it can chill the egg and chick.

 

[Madie'sOddFlock]

It's not, it can chill the egg and chick.

It's a [very]warm paper towel, which I replace about every 30 minutes. Plenty of other people have had it work for them, so I'm giving it a shot, it was just over the membrane(not over the pip) before, and now it's wrapped somewhat like a blanket around it, to keep it in somewhat more egg-like conditions until it takes in the rest of the yolk.

 

[Madie'sOddFlock]

K, so I really need help NOW:
it tried to get up and walk around, and it seemed to be happy with trying... then it shoved the rest of the yolk back out of it's navel and it seems to have popped because it caught on the incubator flooring..... I'm sure there's no chance it can live, but I want to make sure, and preserve what little excuse for hope I have now........

 

[Madie'sOddFlock]

I've now wrapped it in vet wrap... not sure what it'll do... it obviously doesn't look very good... but I'm trying.

 

[aart]

The abdomen is open, the yolk was hanging out and the yolk popped??

 

[Madie'sOddFlock]

The abdomen is open, the yolk was hanging out and the yolk popped??

Yes, the abdomen was open. It hatched early(on it's own, although I think it might have had help from the other chick) and came out with the yolk a little bigger than a jelly bean. It was doing fine and all of a sudden the entire yolk was out and within about 5 seconds or so it must have adhered to the mesh bottom of the incubator and tore slightly open when the chick tried to move.... I'm not really sure how it all happened or exactly what happened.... almost 3 hours later and it's still kicking

 

[aart]

OyVey.....it might make, it might not.
Might want to put is a container, small jar, that it cannot get out of to keep it from roaming and scraping belly further. Put some antibiotic ointment on it's belly.

 

[Madie'sOddFlock]

12 hours now and it's doing ok so far.

 

[aart]

12 hours now and it's doing ok so far.

How's the belly looking?

 

[Madie'sOddFlock]

How's the belly looking?

Well... The edge of the yolk dried and it fell off in the night. I vet wrapped the navel at that point and this morning it had clotted(sort of scabbed over) and I wrapped it again just in case. it has woken up and tried getting on it's feet many times now. I have it in a Tupperware container in the incubator and I gave it a bottle cap of mash this morning. I plan on getting knock off Pedialyte to help with the loss of the yolk... I don't know how well this will go, but I'm trying and it seems to be trying. Any suggestions are very, very welcome.