chick barely alive

[texasturtle]

My eggs were suppose to hatch Saturday and Monday. Out of 7 eggs i have already lost 6. 2 of the six had formed but died before hatching. I float tested the last egg and nothing. Candled egg and nothing. Carefully started opening egg from air sac only to see a shrinked wrapped chick barely breathing. I wet the membrane wrapped in warm wet towel and put back in incubator. The membrane still has alot of veins. What do I do now?

 

[AmericanMom]

My eggs were suppose to hatch Saturday and Monday. Out of 7 eggs i have already lost 6. 2 of the six had formed but died before hatching. I float tested the last egg and nothing. Candled egg and nothing. Carefully started opening egg from air sac only to see a shrinked wrapped chick barely breathing. I wet the membrane wrapped in warm wet towel and put back in incubator. The membrane still has alot of veins. What do I do now?

Nothing at this point to do but just watch it, If you have a humidifier I would get it set up and running, get the ambient humidity in the room where the incubator is up a bit and then make sure the humidity in the Incubator up to 60-65

 

[texasturtle]

Can't believe I am having so many problems. I keep temperature right except i found out temp was dropping at night. But humidity has stayed around 60-70

 

[scflock]

Can't believe I am having so many problems. I keep temperature right except i found out temp was dropping at night. But humidity has stayed around 60-70

60-70 the whole time, or only after lockdown?

 

[texasturtle]

50-55 before lockdown

 

[scflock]

50-55 before lockdown

For me, in my area, that is still a little high. That coupled with dropping temps at night could be your problem. They aren't totally developed, and are probably drowning in the shells. I have had the same thing happen

 

[texasturtle]

That's what I thought until i opened air sac areas of eggs and the inner membrane is solid white and the chick looks vacuumed sealed

 

[AmericanMom]

Can't believe I am having so many problems. I keep temperature right except i found out temp was dropping at night. But humidity has stayed around 60-70

Well your humidity sounds fine now, so x out the humidifier, it ran alot higher than I like during the first 18 days but shouldn't have caused it to shrink wrap..

Did it pip the inner membrane?

 

[texasturtle]

No it's just all curled up in a ball. I don't think it can move but there are too many veins to see if formed all the way

 

[scflock]

That's what I thought until i opened air sac areas of eggs and the inner membrane is solid white and the chick looks vacuumed sealed

if the membrane is solid white, it is not shrink-wrapped. When the membrane start drying out, it starts turning a tan color. If you had to pip the egg for it, I don't think there is any way that it could have become shrink-wrapped. It just isn't ready to hatch