First chick has been stretching and kicking, unable to stand - wry neck? Found a recipe that was from someone's post here at backyard chickens and tried it: honey & water & vitamin e & yolk & selenium. Second one was just sprawled out when I got home from work. GAve honey and water to the second one. They are both bouncing around the incubator, while chick number 3 is pipping upside down? Put a wet towel around the hatching chick. Had to help get some of the shell off of his face so he could breathe better, his peep got muffled, so I intervened. These chicks seemed too big for the shells, or they needed more humidity during incubating? The upside down one had a saddled air cell while developing from rough transit during shipping? Crazy looking and very big compared to the others when it was first developing. As long as they were developing, I left them in. Had humidity in the incubator around 50, now I'll be trying for 53-55. Just went and bought another thermometer with a humidity and comfort scale to put inside the incubator to compare to the gauge on top of the incubator. I just about gave up on them, kept thinking about them at work, came home found the post about the mother could have been vitamin deficient and suggested this recipe - ran out to a 24hr store and bought vitamin e and selenium - and mixed it up! Wow! What a difference!
