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[room onthebroom]

Yikes! Sounds like you’re doing the right thing so far. Can you give it heat from above too, like a heat lamp? Maybe a wet paper towel?

 

[DobieLover]

Yikes! Sounds like you’re doing the right thing so far. Can you give it heat from above too, like a heat lamp? Maybe a wet paper towel?

I've got the damp towel wrapped in the heating pad with my hand inside. It's moist and warm in there. The little thing is yawning a lot and wiggling and peeping occasionally. I'm trying to keep the membrane from drying out.

 

[Shadrach]

I need help.
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Mom got off this nest and left this one.
The membrane was dried up so I put coconut oil on it and picked away the shell that is gone. I don't know anything about this.
I've got it on a damp towel on a heating pad. It's wiggling around and opening it's mouth and sometimes peeping.

I don't think your going to like what I'm going to write. but it's good advice. Kill the chick.
If mums left it there's a reason. You and I may not know what that reason is. This is all part of letting a broody hen make the decisions. I don't even think about it now. If mum leaves any at the nest site I kill them if she doesn't.
If you do manage to save the chick, the mum probably won't accept it. That means you'll have to bring it up and you'll have to integrate it.
I'm sorry DL. It's a hard thing to do, but in the long run it's the best advice you'll get even if you don't like it.

 

[Bunnylady]

I didn't realize how many died in the Civil War (which wasn't very civil).

Actually, that number is very low - most sources put Civil War deaths well over 600,000. Antiquated tactics and improvements in weaponry made the slaughter at most battlefields almost unbelievable. As horrible as the carnage was, at least as many men died of disease in the camps as were lost on the battlefields.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I need help.
View attachment 2117688View attachment 2117689
Mom got off this nest and left this one.
The membrane was dried up so I put coconut oil on it and picked away the shell that is gone. I don't know anything about this.
I've got it on a damp towel on a heating pad. It's wiggling around and opening it's mouth and sometimes peeping.

Remove the wet towel,
That will chill it.
Shad is right most of the time there is a reason the broody abandons a chick.
But most of us are going to give it a fighting chance anyway..
So, it looks like you need to go ahead and peel all that membrane off of it back to where you have the shell open to.
I do not see any blood vessels in it.
It may take a few attempts to get it loose without hurting it. Just keep rubbing it down with coconut oil and peeling back the membrane.
Once you get it to that point it looks to me like it should be able to push itself out when it's ready.

 

[DobieLover]

I don't think your going to like what I'm going to write. but it's good advice. Kill the chick.
If mums left it there's a reason. You and I may not know what that reason is. This is all part of letting a broody hen make the decisions. I don't even think about it now. If mum leaves any at the nest site I kill them if she doesn't.
If you do manage to save the chick, the mum probably won't accept it. That means you'll have to bring it up and you'll have to integrate it.
I'm sorry DL. It's a hard thing to do, but in the long run it's the best advice you'll get even if you don't like it.

You're right. I don't like it. But I do respect it.
What if it's just a late hatcher because it was on the outside of the clutch?
I thought the same thing about her leaving it, that there might be something wrong with it. But what if it hatches tonight and I put it under her and she does accept it?
If it dies or she kills it after that, then at least I know I did everything I could.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I need help.
View attachment 2117688View attachment 2117689
Mom got off this nest and left this one.
The membrane was dried up so I put coconut oil on it and picked away the shell that is gone. I don't know anything about this.
I've got it on a damp towel on a heating pad. It's wiggling around and opening it's mouth and sometimes peeping.

Upon looking again I do see a few blood vessels.
Do what you can without making it bleed,
Just a little bit at a time.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I was taught to cull those if the hen does not want it there is a reason so with Shadrach on this
harsh reality

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I have not had experience with chickens,
But with the call ducks sometimes if they have a little trouble hatching the mom just gets tired of waiting on it.
I have brought eggs inside and finished assisting the hatch before and had success with the mom taking it back, and the duckling being perfectly fine. If there are a lot of eggs to cover sometimes they just get pushed to the edge of the nest and get dry.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Okay going to run look for Good eggs to hatch fired my 42 up buddy is borrowing a different one this time