Half Shell Hatch-A-Long! (Caution, unsuccessful, please read whole thread before attempting)

[MGG]

Oh no, I'm so sorry.

Thanks. Should I post pics of it?

 

[MGG]

Well, here's pics. His abdomen is so greenish colored. Everything was almost absorbed.

 

[Mmanist]

Well, here's pics. His abdomen is so greenish colored. Everything was almost absorbed. View attachment 2298821View attachment 2298822

Awe the little one was almost there too!

 

[MGG]

What do I do about the other 2? Should I just take #3 out tomorrow and let it absorb the yolk once it's out of the egg? I don't want anymore to die.
#1 was just a few hours away from being ready.

 

[MGG]

And it's head was over its right wing, which I think is a malposition? Poor little thing.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

It just died sometime in the last 20 minutes
I just was in here 20 minutes ago, and when I came in now, it wasn't moving. I rubbed him, and he didn't respond. So I opened the egg as fast as I could thinking maybe he has just died and I could "resuscitate" him somewhat. I rubbed him with a wash cloth, he's gone. I don't know what happened. He looked so great last time I was in here. He was squirming and yawning.
I'm sorry guys. I can't believe it.
It's abdomen is very swollen and "green". Maybe it had some kind of infection and got mushy chick disease? Idk. I'm so sad.

I'm so sorry!

 

[MGG]

I'm so sorry!

Thanks. I'm just so shocked it died. I thought it looked so great.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

It does look like possible infection in the abdomen. I have no idea about the other 2 but will relay what happened when I had one hatch with an unabsorbed yolk... (for the remaining chicks)

So Bieles hit the ground running and are very vigorous! My last egg popped out with the yolk in about the same condition (absorption wise) so I did the baby in the shell and upright in a cup thing I found in the assisted hatch threads.
Yeah, baby was having no part of it! It would have happily started running around dragging the yolk behind it (and possibly pulling it's guts out) so I did my best to keep it in a tall cup and quiet but it ruptured the yolk kicking around with his feet anyway.
Ok, on to plan 2-
I carefully trimmed whatever was left (empty sack) and held pressure on the bleeding and dabbed with cornstarch to help control and dry things up. Initially that worked.
Baby did not have the plump abdomen like normal, but otherwise seemed ok so I was going to let him have a go. Attitude alone told me he might make it.
However, in his inability to be still and his desire to climb everything meant he kept pulling off his drying stump and would start bleeding all over again. Rinse, repeat and I realized eventually the blood loss was too much and I culled.

It did help that it was an auto sexing breed and it was a boy, which I already had two very healthy ones. Had he lived he would have been destined for the freezer anyway because I don't want to breed anything like that into my line of Bieles.

.....just my experience with trying to deal with a chick with an unabsorbed yolk...

 

[MysteryChicken]

Ok, thank you! Can this be done with all chicks or only certain breeds?

I do it to all my chicks, & had a 98% success rate.

 

[MysteryChicken]

It just died sometime in the last 20 minutes
I just was in here 20 minutes ago, and when I came in now, it wasn't moving. I rubbed him, and he didn't respond. So I opened the egg as fast as I could thinking maybe he has just died and I could "resuscitate" him somewhat. I rubbed him with a wash cloth, he's gone. I don't know what happened. He looked so great last time I was in here. He was squirming and yawning.
I'm sorry guys. I can't believe it.
It's abdomen is very swollen and "green". Maybe it had some kind of infection and got mushy chick disease? Idk. I'm so sad.

Sounds like Mushy chick Disease, a yolk sac infection.