Bleeding chick (PICS added)

[kasey08]

I am hatching 20 or so eggs. 4 have hatched and the older ones pecked at a recently hatched chick. Its tail is bleeding and I know I shouldn't open the incubator but I did it quick and the humidity was on 80 so I think there fine. The chick is still wet and not alot of blood but didn't want it to get worse. What should I do for it??? I have it under a heat lamp its chirping load

 

[lobo307]

if the bleeding has stopped or slowed , i would leave it to dry, i bet once he has fluffed up he will be fine. just make shure it dosent get too hot. if it is gushing there is prob. not much you can do any way.
somthing similar happened to me last night , i had one bleeding all over the hatcher. i thought there was no way he would live. when i got up this morning i couldnt tell wich one it was, they were all bouncing happily arround the hatcher.

 

[kasey08]

Yeah its really not bad but I didnt want the others to hurt him more.

 

[clairabean]

How is she now?

Segregate her until she stops bleeding. Poor baby.

 

[kasey08]

S/he is ok. The poor thing was scared to death s/he is quite in my hand

But I know not to hold it. Its just bleeding a little but I had just read a thread where they didn't get it out of the incubator and it ended up dieing. So I wasnt going to have that

hope s/he is fine.

 

[lobo307]

is she any better?

 

[kasey08]

Yes s/he I all dry and you can barely see the spot. I would have posted pics but I dont have my cam. The other chicks are acting like there starving in there pecking everything and even each other. Should I put on a humidifier and get them out?

 

[kasey08]

As you can probably tell this is my first hatch with this incubator my last one was old and all died

 

[kasey08]

You cant tell it was bleeding now but its really fat the biggest of all 12 so far. And it cant walk, it walks on its leg instead of the feet. What can I do to help it? Its starting to have a sore on its leg.

 

[Chickengal505]

Set up a coffie mug with a rag or tissue paper on the inside. pussh the paper away in the center to make a space just big enough for the chick's legs to go, but not so big that the chicks bum slide through too. Make shure her feet touch the bottem of the mug. let her get her legs under her self and she'll be fine. If you want to add baby Vit. w/o iron to her water that may help.