Kiki's found horse eggs—experiment Round 2

[lazy gardener]

Do you really want to spend money to necropsy a chick that was not even from your own flock?

Malposition, and unabsorbed yolk. Even so, the chick should have been able to complete an external pip. The neck and head position look perfectly normal to me. A lot of liquid in that shell. Did you do a salt test to calibrate the hygrometer?

 

[Kiki]

Do you really want to spend money to necropsy a chick that was not even from your own flock?

Malposition, and unabsorbed yolk. Even so, the chick should have been able to complete an external pip. The neck and head position look perfectly normal to me.

Yes and no. I would like an answer if possible.

 

[lazy gardener]

You posted before I edited last post. Salt test?

 

[Kiki]

You posted before I edited last post. Salt test?

Check. Yes.

 

[SavKel&RynKel]

You posted before I edited last post. Salt test?

Salt test or not, the air sac did seem to grow well (from what i could see on screen). I have a hard time believing the humidity was off- *pre humidity increase

 

[Kiki]

Do you really want to spend money to necropsy a chick that was not even from your own flock?

Malposition, and unabsorbed yolk. Even so, the chick should have been able to complete an external pip. The neck and head position look perfectly normal to me. A lot of liquid in that shell. Did you do a salt test to calibrate the hygrometer?

I am
100 percent positive this was not because a fault with the bator.

 

[Kiki]

Salt test or not, the air sac did seem to grow well (from what i could see on screen). I have a hard time believing the humidity was off- *pre humidity increase

It wasn't.

 

[Kiki]

Do you really want to spend money to necropsy a chick that was not even from your own flock?

Malposition, and unabsorbed yolk. Even so, the chick should have been able to complete an external pip. The neck and head position look perfectly normal to me. A lot of liquid in that shell. Did you do a salt test to calibrate the hygrometer?

Some of liquid in the shell is the water I put in it.

 

[lazy gardener]

Got it. Before hatch, the chick actually drinks a lot of the amniotic fluid, according to recent reading I've done.

 

[casportpony]

@KikisGirls , sorry you lost the chick, and sorry I haven't been following your thread.

If the chick just died they might be able to necropsy it, but if it died a day or two ago it's probably started to decompose.