HELP do I help or no?

[kesrchicky16]

I have not intervened. This is what it did other night.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Job well done momma hen!
Cute little babies!
Congrats and hope the rest hatch smoothly!

 

[kesrchicky16]

Thank you all for your advice and help. At about 34 hours after initial pip I began an assisted hatch which I soon realized was an eggtopsy. There was nothing that could have saved it. The yolk sac was hardly even started to absorb and there was a blood clot about the size of his head right next the the yolk. It wasn't liquid blood in a vessel it was a clot.

RIP little one.
I might not respond so thank you in advance for your sympathies.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I'm so so sorry....it's just so hard to know when to try something and when to wait. Theres nothing you could have done, assisting sooner would have ended the same due to the yolk not being absorbed. Don't fret to much about it. These things happen and are out if our control.

 

[kesrchicky16]

I'm so so sorry....it's just so hard to know when to try something and when to wait.

This was a case of never ment to be. I could have killed it last night or I could have eggtopsied it today. I understand that not every chick is meant to live but I still cried.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

This was a case of never ment to be. I could have killed it last night or I could have eggtopsied it today. I understand that not every chick is meant to live but I still cried.

I edited that last one.
Nothing wrong with crying! I've lost many and will still cry over them. It's hard not to. You wait and watch and work so hard to keep everything as it should be. It's sad and disappointing.
And that's why we're here. We give advice and do what we can, but it's when it doesn't go as hoped that folks here are at their best, we're a shoulder to cry on and we understand!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

How many have hatched so far? And how many left?

 

[kesrchicky16]

How many have hatched so far? And how many left?

Just got baby 5. 4 pips (2 more on the small side but the membrane is white and looks like the others that have hatched on their own.) So 31 to start, 5 babies, 1 eggtopsy, 4 pips, 21 unknown status.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Oh good! That's awesome.
Also, I edited my last post you quoted but wasn't fast enough, it posted the same time yours did..

 

[kesrchicky16]

Oh and 1 crisis averted. The 2nf baby born had a piece of shell or membrane stuck to its "back" I figured I would get to it later. Well I need fuzzy time after the eggtopsy so I went in (roughly 24 hours after birth) to clean it off. As soon as I started to wet it... poop everywhere!