JUNE 1st Hatch: Were locked and hatching!!!!!!!!!!

[Morag]

My chicks have problems! Can any one help? I've posted a new thread too. One can't stand up and one has a bent head and doesn't seem quite right. I left them in the bator overnight and moved them to the brooder when I came in from work. They all look perfectly formed, the eggs were very small but they are fully developed and hatched on day 21. Any advice would be much appreciated. They are so tiny! They are all eating and the one that can't walk is sort of shuffling itself around. I'd hate to think it was suffering. The other chicks keep walking on top of it. The ones with problems seem to be slightly bigger than the others, it's like there wasn't enough room in the eggs for them.

 

[kelseygirl707]

Only thing I can think is they have a vitamin deficiency, if you can get some Poly-Vi-Sol !WITHOUT IRON! Baby vitamins, it may help. Just give them 1 drop a few times a day. Or I think you can add it to their water, but I'm not sure on the amount for that. Maybe do a BYC search for Polyvisol.

 

[k2chickens]

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Were they from pullet eggs? Your not suppose to hatch a pullets first eggs for a few weeks untill they reach a uniform size.

 

[Fuffy]

Morag,I do soo hope they are OK!!!!

Tomorrow is Day 21....Nothing happening yet

This waiting is killing me!!!

 

[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

5 hatched and 3 more are zipping. There's a couple of pips too!

 

[sgtmck1]

two more days.

 

[joeyg4583]

My eggs are shrinkwrapped. I am sure I made some newbie mistake to cause this. Probably to low of incubation humidity for the beginning. I am having to help chicks out after they get about 1/3 of the way zipped because it is too dry for them to move in their egg. I have one out and one halfway out. Another is working on zipping now so i want to let it try on its own until it is no longer making progress. I wouldn't have helped them if I didn't feel I caused this.

Here is a bad phone pic of the one out trying to encourage one zipping:

 

[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

One of mine is stuck in the shell, the top is off and he can't seem to climb out of it. There was one I thought was shrink wrapped but he eventually hopped out. I'm trying REALLY hard to let them be. I want to get the first one that hatched out so bad...there are 4 that are completely dry but I'm afraid to open it since others are still hatching.

 

[Fuffy]

I HAVE A PIP!!!!!

 

[Morag]

Congrats! My little chick is still not standing but the other 5 are all doing fine, I've tried a splint and physio but not much progress.