Day 25, should I help? VERY URGENT

[CuzChickens]

Can I put her in a glass bowl and cover with saran wrap? I can put a moist rag on the other side. I've been dripping warm water on the membrane to keep it moist

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Can I put her in a glass bowl and cover with saran wrap? I can put a moist rag on the other side. I've been dripping warm water on the membrane to keep it moist

water on the membrane will chill them. yes, try that with air holes poked. a thermometer in there and like I said earlier , as close to 99 as you can. Dont worry about turning it

 

[Jrose]

They’re probably late from being exposed to cold? It’s sure cold here, at least! Mama gets up for a few minutes here and there and the eggs start to cool, the embryo goes dormant and they lose growing time, pushing hatch date out further.

I had an experience with the power going out on hatch day in November! I took the eggs inside, placed them on a damp paper towel inside a casserole dish. I added a moist sponge for humidity. I put plastic wrap over the top and tuck the thermometer inside where I could read it and sat with the eggs by the fire for a couple hours. I rotated the dish to keep it evenly warm and made sure the thermometer didn’t spike in temp. I think is would’ve worked great! Sadly only one chick hatched, but I understand why. The eggs were about 80 degrees when I figured out how to help them, that caused the hatching peeps to go dormant and they didn’t have the air or strength left to keep fighting out the egg when they warmed up. Letting the egg cool at the crucial hatching stage or having it dry out will both be fatal.

 

[Jrose]

Get your remaining eggs warmed up ASAP, crank the humidity up, and leave them alone. If they make it they make it at this point. They are quite the fragile little things... but sometimes they have the umph to pull it off!

 

[CuzChickens]

So I just realized...This momma hen has a sister that has been acting broodyish...So I gave her the egg to see what she does with it. She's been sitting on it and and hearing it cheep, so she knows it is there. It's been acting a bit more spunky since I put it under there but at this point I thing that's the best chance she's got at making it out. *crossed fingers*

 

[CuzChickens]

Update: Chick is hatched, her belly is protruding a bit more than I wish it was, but the yolk is absorbed, she's hanging out with me right now because the mom was getting fed up with her. I'm hoping once she fluffs up and starts standing up I can give her back to mom. I saw the mom step on her neck....Should I be concerned? She wasn't holding her head up before, but she has no control of her neck now. I don't know if it was like that before or not though.

 

[maurer]

we just had one in a similar predicament, don't get your hopes up. ours lingered for a day and a half before nature took its course.

 

[CuzChickens]

we just had one in a similar predicament, don't get your hopes up. ours lingered for a day and a half before nature took its course.

I'm sorry to hear that! I've been hatching chicks for a year now, and even in that short time I know all too well how fragile the life is of such little birds. We'll just have to see with this pretty little one.