Hatch day fears

[gimmie birdies]

if you can keep the ones with their bellies out separate and warmer than the others, sometimes they go into shock. give them time and they will absorb their bellies, plus new borns look all belly anyway.

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

I know what a baby chick looks like, but Robin's belly had quite some yolk still hanging out. So I put down a damp washcloth in one corner of the bator and I put Robin on the washcloth, and I think she is staying there. Hopefully that will help her absorb

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

I know what a baby chick looks like, but Robin's belly had quite some yolk still hanging out. So I put down a damp washcloth in one corner of the bator and I put Robin on the washcloth, and I think she is staying there. Hopefully that will help her absorb

 

[gimmie birdies]

when I had my son, his navel didn't want to heal, the doc told me to dry it out not make it wetter. I put a little rubbing alcohol on it. not a fan of a wet cloth because they get cold.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I would not put rubbing alcohol on a chick, just that you should dry out the belly button, not make it wetter.

 

[Jotaylor]

Should my eggs be lying flat rather than the larger end up a bit higher?

 

[PoultryGirly]

We have our very first pip!

 

[Jotaylor]

I'm very jealous! I keep standing by but nothing yet.. . . .Congrats to you

 

[PoultryGirly]

Thanks! What day are you on? I'm on the beginning of day 20! This is so exciting for me! I know I won't sleep very much tonight! Lol!

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

So far I have had 10 chicks hatch, but 2 might not make it. One of them for sure- it pipped te wrong end of the shell and had yolk sac and blood, probably won't make it. His breathing is labored and he is hardly moving anymore. The other yolkie might make it, he just has some yolk sac to absorb