IM PANICKING does she need help?

[ScottyGill]

On thing everyone should know is that when locking down the incubator for hatching is to ensure all aircells are facing upwards to the top of the incubator. It makes hatching way easier. And if you see a pip to the bottom you turn it upwards so they can have an easier time hatching out.
Best wishes with the chick..

That is something I didn’t know. Another thing on my list to of things I need to know. I will be drawing the aircells on my next eggs.

 

[chickens really]

That is something I didn’t know. Another thing on my list to of things I need to know. I will be drawing the aircells on my next eggs.

I just candle at Lockdown to make sure they are all correct.

 

[Stepfordhomestead]

She’s out, along with 4 others. That leaves two eggs to hatch. They don’t have any pips so far.

The first one to hatch is having trouble. She’s flopping around but can’t stand up.

How dry do they need to be before I can move them to the brooder?

 

[chickens really]

I just move When up on their feet. Possibly put that in a margarine container on paper towel..

 

[Stepfordhomestead]

Ok I have the brooder warming up for the perfect ones. Struggle bus is going to have to stay with me while I check her out and find out why she can’t stand

 

[ScottyGill]

Congrats on the perfect chicks, sadly we had two that couldn't stand, there was something wrong with their legs and they faded fast. I hope that's not the case and yours just needs more time, it can take a little more time for some apparently. Let us know how it goes.

 

[Stepfordhomestead]

This is struggle bus. Her one leg shoots out at this weird angle and she seems almost to have a hernia or something? What is that on her butt?

I wrapped myself and the incubator in a blanket- grabbed SB and checked her out and put her in the brooder. Then I wrapped up, removed the four perfects and candled the last two eggs. They look like quitters- no movement, no internal pip, one almost looks like it has a blood ring. I left them just in case though.

I put everyone in the brooder and they are snuggled together under the heat lamp. It almost seemed like SB was doing better on the pine shavings than on the paper towels I had in the incubator? But that’s probably wishful thinking bc I want her to be ok.

Idk if it matters- but she came out of a weird egg. Normally my hens lay light or dark eggs, a speckled one here and there. This one though, was light with a dark birthmark type thing. Could that affect growth? I didn’t think anything of it when I put it in the bator.

 

[Stepfordhomestead]

Better pic

 

[Stepfordhomestead]

Better pic

 

[chickens really]

No..Just not finished absorbing the yolk yet. Definitely let it rest and leave it alone..