Junior Needs help on hatching eggs

[AmyLynn2374]

I had to help it out and now have 1 chick that is healthy and already out and about without mum because she is still sitting on another egg. The second egg this morning on day 25 had a pip in it a bit like the first chicks egg. I opened up the top from where the pip was so the whole top wheree the air sack is. There was slight bleeding from the veins but nothing else. So will the chick be okay?

Congrats on the first one. Just the fact that it's [the other one] this delayed, would give me doubt, but if it's still breathing there's always a glimmer of hope.

 

[chicken111324]

I had to help it out and now have 1 chick that is healthy and already out and about without mum because she is still sitting on another egg. The second egg this morning on day 25 had a pip in it a bit like the first chicks egg. I opened up the top from where the pip was so the whole top wheree the air sack is. There was slight bleeding from the veins but nothing else. So will the chick be okay?

also one of its feet was up at the round end of the egg is this normal or is it positioned wrong

 

[chicken111324]

***Urgent***

My second chick has an unabsorbed yolk sack. It isnt walking at all and it is about 5 hours old i am really worried about it and dont want it to die. What can i do to help it????

Please answer me because i have never had this before and dont know what to do!!!!!

 

[luvmichx]

IMO you shouldn't help a chick hatch. When it has absorbed the yolk sac and is viable enough to pip and then hatch it will. I am new to this as well but everything I have read says Do Not Help Hatch. I'm sorry your chick has an unabsorbed sac. Not much you can do really but hope it lives.

 

[chicken111324]

IMO you shouldn't help a chick hatch. When it has absorbed the yolk sac and is viable enough to pip and then hatch it will. I am new to this as well but everything I have read says Do Not Help Hatch. I'm sorry your chick has an unabsorbed sac. Not much you can do really but hope it lives.

My first chick couldnt break through the membrane and shell and so i helped it. It is now happy and healthy with mum. the second chick had the same pipping problem and so i helped it out it had already pipped. My nan helps any chick that needs it and most live so i dont know where you found this out from but thanks anyway. I have been breeding for about 5 years now and showing for 1 year.
Thanks for the input

 

[AmyLynn2374]

My first chick couldnt break through the membrane and shell and so i helped it. It is now happy and healthy with mum. the second chick had the same pipping problem and so i helped it out it had already pipped. My nan helps any chick that needs it and most live so i dont know where you found this out from but thanks anyway. I have been breeding for about 5 years now and showing for 1 year.
Thanks for the input

I totally agree. Almost every chick I have ever helped has gone on to thrive and become beautiful, healthy and productive chickens. But you will always have those hatchers that do not believe in helping and will criticize those of us that do. I'm of the opion to each their own, but inside I don't understand some people.

How is the chick today? Do you still need help? I have had 2 chicks born (and they hatched w/o help

) with unabsorbed yolk. One had a ruptured yolk and full working egg to chick vascular system so he didn't make it. Another hatch I had a spitzhauben that I woke up to in the bator with unabsorbed yolk and with him I put a damp paper towel in a coffee mug and set him in it and under the brooder light (cup was too high to leave in the bator w/o risk). I made sure I kep offering him water to avoid dehydration. By that night almost everything was absorbed and dried and I was able to take him out of the cup and put him with the rest. By the next morning I couldn't tell him from the others. The key is trying to keep them from rupturing it. If you can do that (which isn't easy) then their chances are pretty good to absorb it and be fine. If they manage to rupture it, chances are not good.

 

[chicken111324]

I totally agree. Almost every chick I have ever helped has gone on to thrive and become beautiful, healthy and productive chickens. But you will always have those hatchers that do not believe in helping and will criticize those of us that do. I'm of the opion to each their own, but inside I don't understand some people.

How is the chick today? Do you still need help? I have had 2 chicks born (and they hatched w/o help

) with unabsorbed yolk. One had a ruptured yolk and full working egg to chick vascular system so he didn't make it. Another hatch I had a spitzhauben that I woke up to in the bator with unabsorbed yolk and with him I put a damp paper towel in a coffee mug and set him in it and under the brooder light (cup was too high to leave in the bator w/o risk). I made sure I kep offering him water to avoid dehydration. By that night almost everything was absorbed and dried and I was able to take him out of the cup and put him with the rest. By the next morning I couldn't tell him from the others. The key is trying to keep them from rupturing it. If you can do that (which isn't easy) then their chances are pretty good to absorb it and be fine. If they manage to rupture it, chances are not good.

Wow you are really lucky with the second chick but its a shame about the other chick.

Was your second chick lying around on its side?
Could it stand up?
Do I need to give it water because i was told on another forum not to give it any water or food until the yolk sack absorbs?
Also how long does the yolk sack take to absorb?

My chick is absorbing it i think because this morning it it noticeably smaller than yesterday.

Sorry for all the questions

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Wow you are really lucky with the second chick but its a shame about the other chick.

Was your second chick lying around on its side?
Could it stand up?
Do I need to give it water because i was told on another forum not to give it any water or food until the yolk sack absorbs?
Also how long does the yolk sack take to absorb?

My chick is absorbing it i think because this morning it it noticeably smaller than yesterday.

Sorry for all the questions

No, it was quite active and actually had absorbed quite a bit before I got up and discovered him. I'll post a pic. Mine was half absorbed and still took all day until bedtime to finish. I had mine under the brooder light, so yes I did offer water, because I didn't want him to hydrate from being incer the light. Had I been able to keep him in the bator, I probably wouldn't have worried about it. If it's getting smaller, that's a good sign and hopefully it will fully absorb and be ok as long as there isn't any unforseen health problems that you don't know about. (Which happens too.)

For the little girl/guy.

 

[chicken111324]

No, it was quite active and actually had absorbed quite a bit before I got up and discovered him. I'll post a pic. Mine was half absorbed and still took all day until bedtime to finish. I had mine under the brooder light, so yes I did offer water, because I didn't want him to hydrate from being incer the light. Had I been able to keep him in the bator, I probably wouldn't have worried about it. If it's getting smaller, that's a good sign and hopefully it will fully absorb and be ok as long as there isn't any unforseen health problems that you don't know about. (Which happens too.)

For the little girl/guy.

Thankyou my chick is kind of lying like that all the time and i dont think it is walking. But yesterday at lunchtime it was about that an know it is about 2/3s of the original size maybe even half the size. So you think i should give it water? Also when you say you offered it water did you hold the chick to the water and dip its head in or did you just put the water in the pen with it?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Thankyou my chick is kind of lying like that all the time and i dont think it is walking. But yesterday at lunchtime it was about that an know it is about 2/3s of the original size maybe even half the size. So you think i should give it water? Also when you say you offered it water did you hold the chick to the water and dip its head in or did you just put the water in the pen with it?

I would dip the tip of his beak and set him down beside it [the water dish] in case he wanted to actually drink. Every once in a while he would. Then I would put him back in his cup.