Today my broody hatched out 6 serama eggs. Five of them are doing great and are normal. One of them hatched out with it's eye closed and a bubble under the eye slits. What is this? Seems fine running around under mama chirping and everything with a little bit of a crooked beak due to the eye problem.
Also the last eye that didn't hatch I went ahead and pipped a hole in the aircell end but the chick was already dead. It did pip through the membrain but not the shell. No movement,peeping or breathing.I did notice at the back of it's head there was the same bubble like thing that was on the other chick but bigger on the dead one. I kept sitting there hoping it would move but sadly it never did so I went out and buried the chick in the garden where everyone else is.
I'm curious to what the bubble like thing was? Just a hatching problem? These were hatched under my first time broody. Never had this problem before so was wondering if it was just my time to have this sort of problem. Will the bubble under the one chicks eye go away without doing anything? Should I just leave it?
Sorry for so many questions never had this problem before
Can get a pic if need be of the live chick.
Thanks
AC
Also the last eye that didn't hatch I went ahead and pipped a hole in the aircell end but the chick was already dead. It did pip through the membrain but not the shell. No movement,peeping or breathing.I did notice at the back of it's head there was the same bubble like thing that was on the other chick but bigger on the dead one. I kept sitting there hoping it would move but sadly it never did so I went out and buried the chick in the garden where everyone else is.
I'm curious to what the bubble like thing was? Just a hatching problem? These were hatched under my first time broody. Never had this problem before so was wondering if it was just my time to have this sort of problem. Will the bubble under the one chicks eye go away without doing anything? Should I just leave it?
Sorry for so many questions never had this problem before

Thanks
AC
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