Day 25 what next

[suzeqf]

I have 4 eggs under my banty hen from 4 different hens and one hatched with help yesterday morning after it pipped the day before and i can see no signs of life in the other 3 i've listened and peeped and scratched and candled. Should I try to open them to see if just by some miracle one is still alive but just can't get out. The chicks may be banty/reg size roo crosses could that cause them to have trouble hatching.

 

[Kelsey2017]

I just read that another BYCer listens for a heartbeat with a stethoscope. If you opened a healthy live chick by accident you would feel bad. I would probably open any that didn't have a heartbeat/ movement. That way you would know what to do for the ones that were still alive, maybe?

 

[mstricer]

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Just a question....why did you help it? The more you left the hen the more humidity you let out. I just leave my girls alone to do their thing. Do you know of all of them were laid at the same time, or did you give them to her?

 

[suzeqf]

All eggs were laid the same day I have 4 banty hens that laid in the same nest and Smore's laid last and started sitting on her egg and i put a polish banty egg under the same day the nest went thru a lot in the beginning the big girls decided they wanted to lay and scratch around in it and threw things all around.

The reason I helped the little one hatch was because Smore's was off the nest and having a hissy fit to get out of her enclosure when i went in to let them all out yesterday morning so I took that time to check the egg that had pipped the day before to see if it had made any progress which it hadn't and so i made the small hole a bit bigger and the whole end of the egg caved in so i'm glad i helped out because the poor little thing would have died because the air sac was gone. I would like to remove the other eggs and make her nest chick friendly because as it is right now the chick can't get in and out of it