Emergency incubation problems-Help! Post 7

[Guinea Goonie]

Did you help the one out of the egg or did you leave it alone ?

The one that has zipped will be fine, leave it as they truly do rest a lot when hatching.

Really all you have to do is make sure the chick has air.
If the chick is stuck in the egg because of the membrane
sticking then you take the air sack part off.
If the chick can not get out after 12 hours, you take the
shell down to were I show the pics. DO NOT EVER go
down any further. If the chick will not get out, there is
something very wrong at this point.

Your one chick probably is still absorbing the yolk sack as i have
stated. The chick may be out of the shell TOO early.

This happens even with out intervention.

ALSO. EVEN WHEN THERE IS A NORMAL HATCH A CHICK CAN STILL
BE ATTACHED TO THE SHELL THROUGH THE UMBILICAL CORD.

Let the chick work this out for awhile. I have seen them literally drag their shell around for an hour.

If the cord does not break, there is no blood and there is no more yolk sack you can cut the cord carefully with cuticle scissors.

Even when the chick breaks the cord itself there WILL BE a mass attached for some time. This will eventually dry and fall off.

YOU are learning a great deal here. Absorb it all as you will be asked one day to do as we have done to help another.

If you loose a chick, do not beat yourself up. Try very hard not to intervene and do so only if your hatch really needs it.

Get your brooder ready !!

 

[SoccerMomof7]

Okay I took the shell down to where you showed me and wet the membrane with a wet towel. I left him in there and even with part of the shell removed he shows no interest in getting out himself, could it be he is just out of energy from trying so hard? Also my little bloody butt, I do not know if he had the cord attached to the shell he hatched right before I woke up. but there was bloody stuff in the shell he came out of. It really looks like vent issues but how close it the cord to the vent?

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Relax, you are doing great. Let nature take care of the one. Really, if it is a vent problem there is nothing you can do at this point. Chicks die even after hatching. It is natures way of taking care of ones that did not develop correctly and believe me when you use an incubator and not a hen you get a lot more development problems.


Just leave the little one alone and keep it warm and keep the humidity level good. After 24 hours you will know the outcome and you can take the little ones to your brooder. Humidity is not as crucial after hatching, but it is fairly important until the chick becomes a fuzzy butt.

 

[SoccerMomof7]

Okay the little chicky that I thought that I had killed hatched!!! Okay I am up to 9 chickys and 3 more eggs, 1 with a pip. I am getting worried because I have to leave in a couple hours and there will be nobody home until DH gets off at 3. I don't know what to do.

 

[gabrielle1976]

Take a deep calming breath and go . They will be ok till you get back.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

You have done great so far !!

You may not get all of the eggs to hatch out.

RELAX RELAX RELAX RELAX RELAX RELAX RELAX RELAX RELAX RELAX

Did you manage to candle your eggs ?

Chickens have been hatching since the time of the dinosaur !!

Think of what you have learned !!

Have some fun with this. It really is an amazing process and just wait until you see the little turds grow in the first week !!!!

 

[SoccerMomof7]

I did candle and took out 2 around day 10. The one that had pip barely did anything when I was gone, my chicks look dry and mostly fluffy, I have one still dragging around egg shell and 1 that has the membrane, i think, stuck around his wing. Overall if no more hatch I will still be happy with the outcome, but I am still excited to see the outcome.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

OK, it has been over 24 hours. Do you have an update ??

Did any more hatch out ??

Have you put the little ones that have hatched out in your
brooder yet ??

Hope all went well, It sounded like a pretty normal incubation
hatch out.

 

[SoccerMomof7]

Okay I have 12 little chicks! Yay I woke up to the last 2 a little bit ago. That gave me 100% hatch rate for my first time around!

 

[the_eagle69]

Congrads