- Sep 24, 2012
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One of my eggs had the chick's beak in the middle. It was dead when I found it though.X2 on this. The last of my 5 chicks was malpositioned. I made a little hole in the fat end after candling (couldn't see a thing) and found it's leg. So I worked my way across the egg to opposite side, just breaking the shell and moistening the membrane as I went and eventually found it's beak and freed that. By this time I had about 1/3 of the shell off, so I kept wetting it and left it in the incubator for about 7-8 hours. The chick was quite happy once I had it's beak clear, but I freed it's one leg at one point, so it's more comfortable. That little thing was so twisted up in there, it's hard to explain. There wasn't a lot of blood still in the membrane, but I couldn't see the yolk, so I was playing it safe and left it for a few hours. I eventually removed the membrane and helped the chick out of the shell, after checking for blood etc, cleaned it up (it was covered in gunk) and put it back in the incubator for awhile. The next morning it was completely fine.
The way I did it was risky and trust me, I was worried about that little one, especially with all that gunk in the egg. But it worked out o.k. I am kicking myself for not charging the camera so I could take pics of that thoughIt was by far the most unusual assist I've ever done.
Thank you! And yep!
They're from the same trio how come they look so different? They're silver laced wyandottes
