Help! Chick hatch went bad.

[Skyleen13]

This morning one of my eggs piped & everything seemed fine. However, as the hatching went on things went wrong. I noticed blood could be seen on the membrane visible through the chicks progress of hatching. It fought so hard to get out but it was slowing down. Less & less noise was coming from it. By this time it was halfway out. I decided to help her out & started cheeping at the incubator to try to stimulate her. It worked & she popped out but nothing looked right! She was stuck on her back. Couldn’t right herself even after 6 hours. Still “attached” to the egg & her butt didn’t look right. Then another chick hatched just fine but in its struggle to learn to walk ripped the attached egg off of the 1st baby. She’s still not moving much nor making much sound. Help. What can I do for this chick? How can I help her?

 

[Chicalina]

I would just keep it warm, dribble tiny amounts of vitamin/electrolyte water at the side of its beak using an oral syringe, carefully avoiding nares, about once every hour. I don't think you can do much else at this stage. It will either survive or not.

Best of luck.

 

[Skyleen13]

I would just keep it warm, dribble tiny amounts of vitamin/electrolyte water at the side of its beak using an oral syringe, carefully avoiding nares, about once every hour. I don't think you can do much else at this stage. It will either survive or not.

Best of luck.

Thank you

 

[Mellowmalt]

you never assist the very first egg. That just indicated you assisted far too soon.

I'm sure you have read - do not assist too soon - it will cause more problems that it will fix.

Now you know

 

[Chicalina]

you never assist the very first egg. That just indicated you assisted far too soon.

I'm sure you have read - do not assist too soon - it will cause more problems that it will fix.

Now you know

I don't think the OP did any more 'assisting' than just cheep! It's not as if they ripped the baby out of the egg too early.

 

[Skyleen13]

you never assist the very first egg. That just indicated you assisted far too soon.

I'm sure you have read - do not assist too soon - it will cause more problems that it will fix.

Now you know

All I did was make noises to help stimulate it. I never opened the incubator. I didn’t touch the egg while it was hatching. I thought making noise to help it was ok.

 

[Skyleen13]

I don't think the OP did any more 'assisting' than just cheep! It's not as if they ripped the baby out of the egg too early.

Correct! All I did was mimic the noises other chicks make to try to stimulate that one to hatch. It worked. It hatched.

now the baby is just fine. Up and running around with all the others that hatched with no problems.

 

[Skyleen13]

All I did was make noises to help stimulate it. I never opened the incubator. I didn’t touch the egg while it was hatching. I thought making noise to help it was ok.

Baby is doing great now. All fluffed up & running around with its hatch mates.

 

[Chicalina]

Fantastic news, and what a cutie!