My severely shrink-wrapped terrible air cell chick died. I think if I'd helped sooner it wouldn't have gotten so shrink-wrapped. But this extremely sticky, globby stuff was stuck to its face and shell. It literally felt like rubber cement...this chick had no chance in hell. Besides being shrink-wrapped there was no way it could have unstuck itself from this glue. I zipped the chick and wet the membrane...but when I checked it was barely alive. I decided to go ahead and try to remove the globby stuff...it was horrible. The chick died about 30 seconds into the process. Here's a pic of some of the stuff.
Its left over egg white- it can be a sign that the humidity was a little high since not enough moisture was lost from the egg during incubation. That stuff really does dry like cement onto a chick - was there any egg yolk unabsorbed when you helped it? If so - the likely hood was that it wouldnt have made it anyway. Helping a chick too early can still end the same way- sad part of incubation is not knowing exactly when and if to help them. Sad when they get so far but still dont make it out alive.
I dry hatched and my weight was spot on...I thought maybe I incubated to low because I had to shrinkwrapped chicks...but have 3 that hatched perfectly. The yolk was totally absorbed and it was weird, part of the membrane had noooo vessels but part of them had vessels. When I was helping the first time, I hit a tiny bit of blood...the 2nd time it died before I saw any vessels. After it died when I eggtopsied it I found one big vein in the navel connected to a few small veins but she otherwise was perfect...just cemented down with the goop. It took 5 minutes of removing the goo before I could even check the rest of the baby...she was soooo stuck in there. I did what I could..but I don't think anything could have saved her.
