munky4569
In the Brooder
So my husband started to incubate baby chicks, only problem is he works over night so i'm the one taking care of them. I have no idea what im doing or how to help these babies. He has 16 eggs in there, one hatched 2 days ago with half its yolk hanging out of her so she passed. Then one hatched last night, she was having a hard time and the membrane dried so I had to help her out by wetting it every few hours. She finally came out over night, was walking/stumbling around all day but now she just died. Neither of them ever seemed to dry/fluff at all, I have no idea how to change the humidity in it or if I even should. I read I could take the chick out and put it in another incubator to let it dry but we don't have another one to do that. I can't sit here and watch each one of them die, I even tried putting her on a dry towel in there but the towel just got soaked, it seems like no matter what its so damp in there they will never dry. He has a bowl in there with a wet wash cloth in it, plus under the eggs is a lid that has water in it too. Any help would be great please help me save these babies!!