HELP! VERY weak newborn!

[koakritters]

i had to help one of mine just now since it had made no progress for hours and was no longer chirping and barely any beak movement. i got it out but the membrane was very dry. it's laying in the incubator but it won't move at all, it is breathing and sometimes it moves its mouth like it is drinking/eating. is there anything i can do to help it? it's fully formed, no blood was left in the egg or anything, i think it was just too big for its egg and couldn't turn to zip out. It had only made a hole in one little place and had been trying to get out there for hours... is there anything i can to do help it?

 

[koakritters]

Anyone???

 

[dominiquePL]

I think all you can do is leave it in the bator now. It can be weak (just laying there) for several hours. It is also possible there's something wrong with it and that's why it couldn't hatch on it's own. In that case - not much you can do really

But if it's a healthy chick it should be fine soon.

 

[koakritters]

i opened it a bit and she lifted her head up and peeped at me and opened her eyes for the first time! so i think if she makes it, that officially makes me mommy, right? she looks absolutely fine, but compared to the little egg she was in she's huge! i dont think she fit in there! i propped her up inside one of the egg cartons with an egg shell to rest her head on and she seems to be doing a bit better, so i guess i just have to wait and see...

 

[CCourson05]

I actually just helped one of mine. Sadly, I was going to see if they had internally pipped, so I was going to candle. I candled, it's day 21. I know I should have just sat it out. Anyway, I dropped an egg. Busted it and it's membrane. Plus side, no blood or yolk. I removed the shell. The egg membrane, and then slowly the chick membrane. One spot of blood, but not bad at all. Its yolk is fully absorbed, but it's membrane is still stuck to it's butt. Lol. Chirping like crazy!!! He's just figured out his walking... If you want to see him, go to the YouTube page.. CCourson05. I just posted a video of him/her walking around the bator

 

[Wayne&Kim1963]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=478109

I made this post when I helped baby chicken out. I help them all the time. I also give them drink of sugar water with little bit of salt added to it. When I give weak chick drink I just dip the end of his beak end making sure not to dunk its nostrils then I hold its head up so it can swallow water. I am careful not to make him breathe the drink.

 

[msteresaann]

koakritters, sometimes they need to rest a bit after the ordeal of hatching.
Sometimes they pop out running, but I have found those are usually roos, LOL!

 

[koakritters]

thanks! ill try giving her some.

 

[koakritters]

nooo, no more roos! LOL. I have 2 coops, both have a roo already and i've already grown attached to my 4 week old one... he was the first chick i ever hatched...

she just lifted her head and chirped all one her own! yay!. maybe this wont be as bad as i was thinking... i didnt want to help, then i did and as soon as i saw her i started regretting it thinking maybe she hadn't been ready.... i already had to help a shrink wrapped one earlier and i was starting to think maybe she was too... for my second hatch ever, this is a lot to handle!!!

but 14/15 are out of the eggs, the other one has nothing going on at all.