Engo
In the Brooder
- Aug 23, 2018
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This is the first time I've used an incubator, I'm not good at it. everything was smooth until hatch time. it started out with three dead chicks (after hatched, out of incubator,) the dilemma was that they where to close to the heat lamp. so I set up the cage I normally use for rejects (chicks usually with disabilities that moms threw out) now everything's generally fine. I admit the humidity has been high. so anyway now I look into my incubator and see an egg with a gap, good sized, two cm? so I wait and I know enough from passed experience that if it has been five hours with no progress and constant trying somethings wrong. so I take the egg out and some of the lining between the shell and chick has... stiffened, dried onto the chick and around it. there's also a string of gunk running over the chicks eye. I immediately start pulling lining off the poor thing and brake the shell immediately around the gap. I also brake the string. now I see the chick should have finished hatching hours ago, I see fesses have been expelled and have trickled to just below the wing-ish area. more lining presses agenized the leg, but anytime I touch the piece the little guy screeches. so I put it back into the incubator. about ten minutes later I hear frantic chirping and the creature is halfway rolled out of the shell, but its leg is trapped bye the line I mentioned earlier, I ignore its protests and peel away the stuff and finish getting the chick out myself. I don't give it anymore inspection and put it back into the warmth. I come back later and remove the dry chick, its wing is messed up, it hands next to the leg in a limp stiffness. its leg already looks better, I think it will be fine, but the wing makes me nervous, its hanging down to far but can be moved a little. the wing looks tucked under the leg I thing, its also not walking yet, its stood for a second but no longer before tipping and tumbling back to the ground.
