- Mar 20, 2012
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I recently had several of the eggs in my incubator hatch with so far what seem to be healthy baby chicks. After several hours of no movement from others eggs, we turned the incubator off. An hour later I went to throw the unhatched eggs away and notice one of the chicks is beginning to pip through its egg. Since the humidity and temp were way down, we helped it out of the shell very carefully. After a few hours I began to notice this chick doesn't look like the rest. its legs don't work right, it cant stand up and it seems like one leg is stuck out to the side and also as if the toes don't work. It eats and drinks and has bowel movements so I as caught in the dilemma of seeing how bad this chick fought to live and can't bring myself to put it with the others due to fact that they Will trample it since it is so far behind. I have been giving all of them medicated chick starter and vitamins in water. Is there anything I can do to make this chick better? or is it doomed to be like this forever?