Hands on hatching and help

[RubyNala97]

The two crushed shelled chicks I had to get out early are truly miracle babies. They both survived and are doing well. The cords and attached membrane shriveled up and was the size of sewing thread so I cut it with no problems at all. They are both in the coop with the stupid broody mom. I have several hatching now so I'll post pics of the gang soon! Here's a pic of one just before getting them out a couple days ago, and both of them today.

That is truly amazing that you saved these two! How did find the beak and how did you break the membrane? Did it bleed? I find making an internal pip fascinating. You did a great job!

Hey guys all my jubilee's have hatched except 2. One has internally pipped but the other hasn't that I can tell and it looks weird. I can see the chicks chest breathing hard so I know it's alive. The way the egg is looks like it may be shrink wrapped. What do you guys think?

This is a shipped egg? It looks to me like the air cell was loose and firmed up down the side but I don't think that egg has fully drawn down yet. Usually when they do that dip on the one side will even out. I don't think that chick is in position to internally pip into the air cell. If this was a local egg (?) then I might think shrink wrapping is happening.

Tell me about it. I hatched out some chicks and guineas for a neighbor and kept asking when he was going to get them. "This weekend", which kept coming and going. Finally had enough and took them down and put them in his pen. They were hatched in May!!!!

Oh yes! This has happened to me more then once. And the people kept saying the same thing..."this weekend" or "my next day off of work". Two weeks later and I'm still heating and feeding the chicks! I was not happy about that!

Eta:I hit the button to soon.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

That is truly amazing that you saved these two! How did find the beak and how did you break the membrane? Did it bleed? I find making an internal pip fascinating. You did a great job!
This is a shipped egg? It looks to me like the air cell was loose and firmed up down the side but I don't think that egg has fully drawn down yet. Usually when they do that dip on the one side will even out. I don't think that chick is in position to internally pip into the air cell. If this was a local egg (?) then I might think shrink wrapping is happening.
Oh yes! This has happened to me more then once. And the people kept saying the same thing..."this weekend" or "my next day off of work". Two weeks later and I'm still heating and feeding the chicks! I was not happy about that!

Eta:I hit the button to soon.

The egg has been like this since day 19. It's now 22 and all the other eggs have hatched. I don't think this one is going to make it..

 

[audy5000g]

So here's something interesting: while trying to find out how to tell the sex of turkeys I came across a post in which someone claimed they could sex both poults and chicks as day olds by flipping them onto their backs and watching what they did with their legs. Certain behavior indicated female and other behavior indicated male. They said it worked for them with 94% accuracy. I didn't believe it but decided for fun to try it out. So far I've done my sultans with it and my naked necks. The sultans I still can't tell the sex (they take longer to be able to tell the genders apart like silkies and polish do), but this method actually worked and sexed my NNs with 100% accuracy. Now that could be a coincidence and I'm going to keep trying this and keeping track just for fun but I thought that was kind of neat. I'm gonna try the rest of my chicks with it as they hatch and we'll see what happens. A fun experiment

Care to share what they do with their legs

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Hey guys still trying to take care of this chicks legs. Can someone help me out a little I'll post pics and the directions RubyNala97 found for me.

 

[WVduckchick]

@jenniferlamar70 do you think its a slipped tendon? I've had a couple, and never successfully treated one. If its just splayed, those are easier to correct. I've seen very few successful slipped tendon fixes.

Look up "poultry podiatry", there's a good link with some descriptions of multiple problems.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

@jenniferlamar70 do you think its a slipped tendon? I've had a couple, and never successfully treated one. If its just splayed, those are easier to correct. I've seen very few successful slipped tendon fixes.

Look up "poultry podiatry", there's a good link with some descriptions of multiple problems.

So it was a help out that took like 2 days. It pipped the wrong end. The membrane was exposed. So I could see what was going on. When it started trying to zip it pushed it's leg through the membrane and got stuck. I think that's why it's leg is messed up. It could be splayed leg or a slipped tendon. It feels stiff but I can get it to bend. I looked at some pictures and honestly it could be either. I just feel like it was from that incident with its leg. I don't have experience with and of this though so I'm going off of what I've read. I don't know how to tell if it's the tendon or just splayed leg. That's what I was hoping someone can help me out with.

 

[WVduckchick]

So it was a help out that took like 2 days. It pipped the wrong end. The membrane was exposed. So I could see what was going on. When it started trying to zip it pushed it's leg through the membrane and got stuck. I think that's why it's leg is messed up. It could be splayed leg or a slipped tendon. It feels stiff but I can get it to bend. I looked at some pictures and honestly it could be either. I just feel like it was from that incident with its leg. I don't have experience with and of this though so I'm going off of what I've read. I don't know how to tell if it's the tendon or just splayed leg. That's what I was hoping someone can help me out with.

The leg is probably why it couldn't zip on its own.
Personally I'd try banding together first, like splay leg, and see if it can try to start using it. I prefer a small band aid cut to fit, depending on their size.

 

[MultipleAnimals]

I just lost all my Hand Hatched Chicks. A Raccon Got Them last night. I had them in a large dog kennel, wrapped in netting with a light on. But siblings apparently unplugged the lamp, and never plugged it back in, so a Raccon decided to eat and kill them. I guess I am gonna reinforce the netting. They weren't even two months. I had just started letting them outside to introduce into the older flock. Oh well. I have 20 eggs in the incubator. I hope they hatch, around 18-23, 10 of the eggs are five days ahead.

 

[WVduckchick]

I just lost all my Hand Hatched Chicks. A Raccon Got Them last night. I had them in a large dog kennel, wrapped in netting with a light on. But siblings apparently unplugged the lamp, and never plugged it back in, so a Raccon decided to eat and kill them. I guess I am gonna reinforce the netting. They weren't even two months. I had just started letting them outside to introduce into the older flock. Oh well. I have 20 eggs in the incubator. I hope they hatch, around 18-23, 10 of the eggs are five days ahead.

Awwww so sorry. good luck with the new hatch

 

[RubyNala97]

Hey guys still trying to take care of this chicks legs. Can someone help me out a little I'll post pics and the directions RubyNala97 found for me.

I couldn't see much from the pics, only the first pic. Are the toes curled? Does there seem to be any deformities to the leg or foot? The one slipped tendon I had you could feel at what we would consider a "knee". Feel a couple of the other chicks first (so you know what it's supposed to feel like) and then feel how the leg bends and moves at that joint. With a slipped tendon when you feel that joint the bone will move out of place from side to side. I tried holding the chick by its hocks and moving so it would feel like it was falling and then try to pull up. Sometimes that motion of them pulling up while being suspended in mid air will pop the joint back in place. From the pic you posted it didn't really seem splayed but more like it couldn't use that leg. Does it put pressure on it or bend it?

I just lost all my Hand Hatched Chicks. A Raccon Got Them last night. I had them in a large dog kennel, wrapped in netting with a light on. But siblings apparently unplugged the lamp, and never plugged it back in, so a Raccon decided to eat and kill them. I guess I am gonna reinforce the netting. They weren't even two months. I had just started letting them outside to introduce into the older flock. Oh well. I have 20 eggs in the incubator. I hope they hatch, around 18-23, 10 of the eggs are five days ahead.

Oh no!! That's so sad!!