BaileyMChicks
Songster
if it hatched on its own and was early,your temperatures may have been a bit high during incubation.
it should absorb on its own, and yes it does happen fairly frequently in my experience especially if they pip early
That makes sense. My temps were a bit high for a few days around day 5 to 9, roughly. I had had the incubator in our workshop where I had 2 brooders with chicks set up, plus a space heater, but I think the temps were too cold outside, and the digital thermometer+hydrometer wasn't reading any higher, so they probably got too hot when I turned up the heat. It stayed at about 98.8 for the rest of the incubation though. Sometimes it got up to 100.6, but that was it.