LunaMarieWolf
Songster
I had a chick hatch out about 30 mins ago and I noticed that it has MAJOR crooked break!! It also has crooked toes and is missing an eye. Its skull is deformed to where the eye isn't even there.
I have been hatching chicks for almost 2 months now. I have only been hatching my Black sex links and my easter Egger hens egges because those were the eggs I got during the cold days. This time I put in 2 of my either my Rhode Island red hen or my Barred rock hen. (I can't tell them apart because their egg color is the same) These hens are older. I don't know their exact age because they were given to us as full grown hens a year ago. Plus they have an older hen look to them.
Most of the time when I tried to hatch out eggs from those hens, the chicks would quit developing around 15 days.
I decided to see if it was my incubator at fault and I decided to hatch 2 eggs from those hens and a black sex link egg.
I candeled at day 18, right before lockdown and one of the light colored eggs had quit developing. So I still had the black sex link egg and one of the RIR or BR eggs.
Day 21 came and went. No movement, no sounds, no nothing. All of my chicks that I hatched popped out on day 18-19. And I was not going to open the incubator to see if the chicks were okay.
Today (day 22) I saw that the chick had hatched! Well the black sex link chick was chirping and happy. The other chick had a deformed skull, toes, and crooked beak. Also there was blood all in the egg and all over the chicks bottom. It has a protrusion from its backside where the chick was attached to the egg and it is bloody.
I honestly don't know what to do at this point for the chick..
But could this be a genetic thing from the hens or was this all just because the chick was not positioned correctly?
I have been hatching chicks for almost 2 months now. I have only been hatching my Black sex links and my easter Egger hens egges because those were the eggs I got during the cold days. This time I put in 2 of my either my Rhode Island red hen or my Barred rock hen. (I can't tell them apart because their egg color is the same) These hens are older. I don't know their exact age because they were given to us as full grown hens a year ago. Plus they have an older hen look to them.
Most of the time when I tried to hatch out eggs from those hens, the chicks would quit developing around 15 days.
I decided to see if it was my incubator at fault and I decided to hatch 2 eggs from those hens and a black sex link egg.
I candeled at day 18, right before lockdown and one of the light colored eggs had quit developing. So I still had the black sex link egg and one of the RIR or BR eggs.
Day 21 came and went. No movement, no sounds, no nothing. All of my chicks that I hatched popped out on day 18-19. And I was not going to open the incubator to see if the chicks were okay.
Today (day 22) I saw that the chick had hatched! Well the black sex link chick was chirping and happy. The other chick had a deformed skull, toes, and crooked beak. Also there was blood all in the egg and all over the chicks bottom. It has a protrusion from its backside where the chick was attached to the egg and it is bloody.
I honestly don't know what to do at this point for the chick..
But could this be a genetic thing from the hens or was this all just because the chick was not positioned correctly?