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[Kedreeva]

lol their beaks are going to look upside down to you. Actually what happens when they are positioning themselves to pip, they tuck their head under their wing (typically left wing) and this gives them the appearance of being 'upside down' to you when in fact they are probably just fine.

 

[buffbeauty]

Three of five banty salmon favs hatched. They look strong and healthy!

 

[Rin]

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Whew. Well. Should I leave her like this then? For the night I mean? I clipped around her shell carefully and moistened the membrane with water and placed her in a warm washrag.

 

[StormyMoon]

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Congrats

yay babies

 

[Kedreeva]

@ Buff: Grats!

@ Rin: Like I said before, if they seem to be getting weaker go ahead and help them. If they're stuck and not moving at all except breathing, you should probably at least help a little. If they still peep and they are shifting around a bit, then I'd just leave them alone. I usually give them a zip line and then leave them for another 6-12 hours to see if they get it themselves, as long as they still peep back when I peep to them.

 

[Rin]

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My question though is mostly membrane. it's mostly just laying there breathing and biting at air and seems otherwise completely compleeetely still. Honestly. It comes across to me as stuck. Like a fat person in a tire swing stuck.

I'll try to leave it until the morning.

*nods*

 

[Kedreeva]

@ Rin: You said it's been 20+ hours with no progression?

 

[Rin]

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Indeed. In fact. About 10 minutes away from 24 hours now.

 

[Kedreeva]

Meh, I'd go ahead and help it a bit. I think you said you made a zip line... make sure you've got the room warmed, and have warm water + q-tips at hand. You can use tweezers or something (I use a push pin) to crack away bits of shell and peel back the outer lining (the white one just under the shell) until you've taken the top 1/3 of the egg shell off, but left the inner membrane intact. You can then check it easily for blood veins. Wet the inner membrane while working, but definitely at this point you should wet the membrane down completely with warm water. This should light up any veins as red- if they are there (or if you see them on the membrane while working (just their presence, not blood from broken ones) then you should probably leave the chick be for a while. The presence of veins tells you that the chick is not quite ready, and is still attached to the inner membrane through its circulatory system. This should cease when it's ready to kick itself free.

 

[StormyMoon]

I heard all this crazy chirping going on so I looked down the hall and saw momma going around and around in circles in her nest she was crushing them I guess when they all started chirping at the same time it freaked her out. Or the dead baby was freaking her out. I don't know

The one who was born to early died she stepped on the deal that was sticking out of it by the time I went in there it had bled out.
I removed it and the eggs she had crushed the shell of but i didnt do anything other than make sure they had holes to breath from and then put them under my other broody Hen 2 and swapped eggs out now the Hen 1 who had the pipped eggs is resting on a new set of eggs and sitting fine.
Lost 1, have 5 pipped and still in the membrane that is open with beaks out, we have 4 more to go that have not pipped yet and I am afraid to look at them in case this happens again.