it can be very scared at times it may not chirp. it looks like it is very red is that wet blood from it still bleeding is it old dried blood? if it is still breathing and bleeding do not touch it until the bleeding stops.
good good you opened the big end. now very calmly do an en examination for me.
look for movement of the chick.
very quiet peep and see if you can get it to peep back.
follow the given advice already given for it, look at the link i gave and see what you can do.
now i do not want to scare you but chances are good that these two wont make it. But do not beat yourself up about it i have done what you have done before and it is not a good feeling but just get good advice from BYC and you may save it.
As long as you see blood you need to leave that chick alone for a couple of hours. Wrap it in a warm rag or paper towel, leaving it's beak uncovered so that it could breath.
the one my friend opened was dead it was deformed it had not wings and it was a silkie chick but its skin was white not one hint of black. The secound chick kicked its self out of its shell yolk almost completly asorbed was trying to pip. I just now checked on it and it is dead
I am heart broken I put the remaining 3 back in with the hen I candled them with a flashlight the best i could i see movement in all 3 so i put them back. I will NEVER ever open eggs again. I am now on the online randall burkey company website ordering a candler. I feel like a horrible person I feel as if I left them alone they would have hatched.
Here is a pic of the deformed chick
see the white feet?
the chick that was breathing that died. This is when it had kicked its self out.
1 was very tiny had not absored yolk at all other was bigger and almost asbored all its yolk. Would these eggs have been on day 23?
I counted 21 days from the day I found her setting I didn't know for sure what day she had began so I counted from when I found her. I just figured they would hatch before or on the day I found her.
Do you have more than 1 hen laying? If so then it is possible that the other hens laid in her nest when she got up and that would have made some eggs further along than other's.
OH boy. Theresann. I am so sorry. You mentioned that your broody was nesting on the ground and worried about the cold. It it was a bit colder than optimal, they would develop slower, so that is why it might be day 23 but they weren't ready yet.
