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Thanks Trisseh.
Nothing else you could’ve done. Sometimes they just don’t survive the transition from breathing through the egg to using their respiratory system, even if they seem like they’ve got it to start with. Hard to say if it was truly a yolk infection as the yolks do look strange in light coloured birds, if you look at their abdomen right after hatch (but most don’t remove them still wet, so don’t necessarily see it - I pick up and check/dip navels on everyone if I’m around when they hatch). Hard to know with one right at hatch or close to it, too, because usually you start seeing omphalitis a few days after hatch, once the bacteria overwhelms them. But those eggs aren’t open for part of the incubation process, so not sure how they’d compare.
It could have been that he was light colored. I've never had such a light colored chick from my own flock. I still have one light and one dark chick. I hope they make it. What do you dip the navels in? I have triple antibiotic ointment still, maybe if any actuallly hatch I could put that on?
I have a new respect for egg shells now, lol.
Yeah, that's what I've heard too. Idk. Its abdomen was really big and had a greenish tint.
Also, how are your quail eggs doing?
