Help hatching chick is in critical condition!

[AlishaSalzer]

The first thing I'd do is take the egg and prop it upright to try to keep the excess fluid away from the beak and hopefully keep the chick from drowning in it or inhaling it. Do you know how long ago the egg externally pipped?

Last night around midnight

 

[AlishaSalzer]

Out of curiosity, what day of incubation are you on? I was under the impression you were past day 21.

This is 21

 

[Pyxis]

Last night around midnight

It may have some absorbing left to do, then. Prop it up, and then decide if you want to attempt to help. I have written an article about how to help, which if you follow, you will not hurt the chick.

The article is here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

 

[AlishaSalzer]

I'm sorry your humidity may have been too high throughout.
I'm not sure there's much you can do for this one.

So do u think the others are in need of help getting out or do u think they are dead

 

[Kiki]

So do u think the others are in need of help getting out or do u think they are dead

I would candle them and see how they look. See if there's straw down of the air cell, check to see if there's any internal pips.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

So I have a baby that started to hatch last night! This morning I went to check on the little guy and there is this thick sticky goo seeping out of the egg. It's all hard like eggyolk when it dries. And the baby is all sticky and stuck! I tried helping a chick once and the baby didnt make it! But this is different. Idk what to do! The baby isn't chirping but is continuously opening and closing its mouth. Please what do I do! And there are like bubbles coming out of the egg! I think its drowning I dont know what to do

Sounds like it is passing away. That’s really hard to watch, so sorry!

 

[AlishaSalzer]

It may have some absorbing left to do, then. Prop it up, and then decide if you want to attempt to help. I have written an article about how to help, which if you follow, you will not hurt the chick.

The article is here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

So I think my humidity was to high the last few days what about the other eggs could they be drowning or needing help idk

 

[Pyxis]

So I think my humidity was to high the last few days what about the other eggs could they be drowning or needing help idk

If your humidity was too high, then yes, they could. I would do what Kiki suggested and candle them.

 

[aart]

It's tough call....I just finished a hatch, assisted 2 that made it and 1 that didn't.
You've gotten great advice...Best of Luck.

 

[AlishaSalzer]

Last night around midnight

So I think my humidity was to high the last few days what about the other eggs could they be drowning or needing help idk

So this is 48 hours after the baby started peeping he doesn't look good but is alive for now! He was kinda shrink wrapped in n his egg when I woke up this morning I'm leaving him in the incubator but there is a nasty thick green stuff looks like split pea soup all over him! Any advice u may have would be awsome. Because I really dont want him to die I left him still attached to the egg or whatever!