Everyone, please feel free to add your pictures of chicks and ducklings that needed assistance in hatching.
Before assisting, please read this article by @Pyxis.
Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry (click to open)
Here is one I found in a nest. It's been my experience that when they look like this with the shell crushed inwards and with a foot stuck out that they will never hatch on their own.
These that get squished in the nest need assistance too:
Another squished shell
Before assisting, please read this article by @Pyxis.
Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry (click to open)
Here is one I found in a nest. It's been my experience that when they look like this with the shell crushed inwards and with a foot stuck out that they will never hatch on their own.
These that get squished in the nest need assistance too:
Another squished shell
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