chick hatching badly need advice (pic)

[jaxchic]

Hi all.....so I left the baby in the incubator all night and it finally emerged. It's definitely alive but so far sleeping...its yolk isn't fully absorbed there is only a small lil bit sticking out. I plan on leaving it in the incubator all day. Wil that little bit of yolk pull in?

 

[lazy gardener]

It should.

 

[CarolinaHen]

Leave it in there and just monitor. Post pics!

 

[jaxchic]

I cut up a piece of puppy pad and made a liner for it to lay on that should stay a little moist. Plan is to leave it be..
Should I use betadine or anything on it? I have read that before...

 

[jaxchic]

Oh one last question... do u guys think I should turn off the fan in the incubator? Could the wind from it dry the yolk?

 

[Heidisgran]

Oh one last question... do u guys think I should turn off the fan in the incubator? Could the wind from it dry the yolk?

the fan probably isn't a problem..I would wrap it in a damp paper towel and prop it in something so it's kind of sitting up...that'll keep it from snagging the yolk on something, even it's own foot, and rupturing the yolk....then if it begins a little struggle to free it's self from that cup that movement will help it absorb that yolk.

 

[jaxchic]

In-between naps it has a little set of lungs on it, it's a chirper.

 

[Farmer Viola]

looking good!
great job with the cup too I sometimes like to wrap them in a warm wet paper towel swaddle, then put them in the cup. they like the tight/close feeling of being wrapped I think, being out of the egg is scary!
she will probably need to stay in the cup for at least a day I think

 

[jaxchic]

Went out to run some errands when I came back it was out of the cup, and I think just a little bit of yolk came out more.
So...the warm wet swaddle.
And again.....we wait...

 

[jaxchic]

The baby died

I feel bad because it pooped in the swaddle and it was a nasty stinky mess.
I never feel like I did enough when a bird passes. Next time I see an egg with hairline fractures while it is being incubated I think I will try to seal it. Maybe then it wouldn't have dried out so much in the first place. It was a salmon faverolles..