HELP early guineas hatching!!!

[Kathryn173]

They could just be upside down, I've had a few like that. They seem to take longer to hatch and may need help as they sometimes can't push the egg apart when they've tapped round the shell.

 

[Kathryn173]

...I've had pheasants and chickens like that.

 

[ZoeS95423]

They could just be upside down, I've had a few like that. They seem to take longer to hatch and may need help as they sometimes can't push the egg apart when they've tapped round the shell.

One of them has been like that since yesterday at 1 probably before since that's just when I found them hatching.
He hasnt made the hole bigger or anything..
Breathing though.
I'm not a big helper, I always ty to let nature do its thing.. It does make me sad though, this is my fist time hatching guineas. I have never had pheasants or chickens hatch upside down or had any kind of problems during a hatch before.
I have the first 2 in the brooder, I went to start washing the membrane on the white chick and the stripey xhixk jumped out of the incubator when I went to give the white guy a break... So I decided to put them in the brooder.

It'll be better to catch and.wash him out of there anyway.

 

[Kathryn173]

I know some people don't want to help but if you want them to live you may have to as they are such an awkward shape in the shell. It doesn't seem to affect them later, they grow the same as the others and I have never known any of their offspring to have any problems.

 

[Kathryn173]

Did your guineas ever hatch?

 

[ZoeS95423]

Yes. I have 7 out of 10.
Plus 6 more under a chicken which are hatching right now!

The last one to hatch however, had to be culled. It couldn't stand up and continued to flop on his back. The little guy had curled toes which I tried to straighten out with bandaids and also vet wrap.
Niethet worked. He would lay on his back and kept trying to run around... I felt so bad for him and gave him a day and a half, no signs of improvement. Had vitamins in the water and everything.
One of the other ones I just noticed last night has a completely curled up foot and is walking on his ankle. Watching him get around you would never notice unless actually looking at his foot. He doesn't limp or anything. Just as fast and crazy as the rest.

Should I try bandaiding his foot to flatten it out? Or leave it be since he is already adapted to it?

 

[Kathryn173]

It's good you got so many of them out, shame about the last one.
If it was me I'd try to fix its foot while it's still young, just so it didn't have any problems with it later on. I just took some tape off a pheasant chicks foot today. He's had it on a week and has straight toes now. They were very curled to start with. It was hilarious watching him tap his foot like mad wondering why it is so light now. He learned to walk again after about an hour and seems fine now.