Help! assisting a hatching chick! There is blood! *pictures* HELP

[Ocar3273]

Leave it my chick was even less advanced than you and it got out 2 days later just leave it and see what happens. If you absolutely have to and it has all of its eggs yolk gone out of its stomach then try to get it. Mine picked when it wanted to get out and it didn’t absorb all of its yolk and had a big bump on its bottom.

 

[Ocar3273]

Just put it back into the incubator

 

[MelissaRose]

When you say it was having trouble hatching, what was going on that looked like it needed help? Had it been over 24 hours from the time it externally pipped?

I'm not sure when it pipped but the other one was fluffy and completly dry so I assumed it had been awhile and I was also not sure it was alive anymore and I was stressed so I opened it a tiny bit and took off the loose shell bits from the pip. and then the hen it was under rolled it all around and it was on its face a few times and there is rotten eggs all over the nest. I have had chicks just like this that start to zip and suffocate because they can't pip and die so I really don't want that to happen to this one. It didn't seem to be able to zip it was poking at the shell and nothing was happening. Maybe I shouldn't have taken it away from the hen I just couldn't bear the thought of seeing this alive chick and having it die because it suffocated when I could have done something. I'm sorry, I probably intervened to soon.

 

[MelissaRose]

Just put it back into the incubator

It was under a broody hen and she has rotten egg all over her nest and she is rough with the chicks. I have a bator but I'd have to set it up and its not very accurate. Should I set it up?

 

[Ocar3273]

Did it die?

 

[Ocar3273]

Yes you should set it up and jack the humidity up so the membrane will get real loose

 

[Ocar3273]

60 to 70 humidity

 

[Ocar3273]

And if that hen was rough I wouldn’t put anymore eggs under if she is like this she will probably continue

 

[Pyxis]

I'm not sure when it pipped but the other one was fluffy and completly dry so I assumed it had been awhile and I was also not sure it was alive anymore and I was stressed so I opened it a tiny bit and took off the loose shell bits from the pip. and then the hen it was under rolled it all around and it was on its face a few times and there is rotten eggs all over the nest. I have had chicks just like this that start to zip and suffocate because they can't pip and die so I really don't want that to happen to this one. It didn't seem to be able to zip it was poking at the shell and nothing was happening. Maybe I shouldn't have taken it away from the hen I just couldn't bear the thought of seeing this alive chick and having it die because it suffocated when I could have done something. I'm sorry, I probably intervened to soon.

Since it's bleeding, that means it's not ready to hatch. In the future, if this happens, you can open the shell over the air cell, just over the air cell, and then put some coconut oil or neosporin on the membrane. If the chick is ready or almost ready, you will see no blood or veins in the membrane. Never pull or rip the membrane until you see there are no more veins.

Most of the time you don't have to touch the membrane at all. If you take the shell over the air cell off and keep the membrane moist, when the chick is ready, it will push itself out of the shell without needing any help.

 

[MelissaRose]

Did it die?

No its still alive!

Yes you should set it up and jack the humidity up so the membrane will get real loose

Ok. I will set it up

60 to 70 humidity

ok.

And if that hen was rough I wouldn’t put anymore eggs under if she is like this she will probably continue

Well she isn't rough with the other chick, it was just this egg. She kept pushing it around under her and it would end up upside down.