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Methods for saving prematurely born chicks.

TarikNecefli

In the Brooder
May 6, 2025
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İzmir, Turkey
Friends. There were 9 eggs left in my incubator that did not hatch. When the 23rd day was over, I was going to take these eggs out of the incubation environment and do one last candling, and if there was no life, I was going to throw them away. I candled the eggs I took out one by one and listened with a stethoscope. There was no sign of life. But with a hope, I put the cake container (for the greenhouse effect) on a ceramic plate in a sunny place. I put a thermometer inside. After about half an hour, when the temperature reached 40.5 degrees, I opened the lid and cracked the eggs by the air sac. I put my finger in this part and checked them one by one. When I could not see any sign of life, I decided to bury them in the backyard. I heard a sound while putting them in the box. I told my wife that I heard a chick sound. She told me that it must have been a sound coming from outside. When I shook the box slightly while closing it, I heard another sound and I insisted to my wife that the sound was coming from the box. We finally found the source of the sound by plugging the eggs one by one. NO 26 was beeping. I immediately took it and broke the shell up to the part where the chick's head was. The membrane was not torn, but the membrane stretched the chick like a stretch. I found the exact location of its beak and opened a small hole. From there, I gave it air with a pipette and a baby air machine. And I took it to the incubation cabin. It stayed in the cabin for 12 hours. However, the chick could not come out. I intervened urgently and cut the membrane on its own axis. When I returned 2 hours later, the chick had come out. However, it was very weak and puny. It was 1/3 the size of a normal chick. It was breathing very frequently. I massaged its wingtips with sterile warm water. I dropped 1 drop of carob sherbet diluted with warm water onto its beak. It instinctively drank the drop immediately. 2 hours passed. While I was expecting it to die, I saw that it was still alive. I gave it 1 more drop of warm water mixed with apple cider vinegar and carob sherbet. When I looked 2 hours later, the chick was not where it was. I found it stuck to its own shell, in the water jar in the hatching basket. I brought it to the middle immediately. Its pulse had improved. Its cooing was regular. I immediately took it to the incubator. I increased the humidity to 85-85. I lowered the temperature to 36.5. Yesterday morning, I separated the placenta from its shell and eased its movement. In the afternoon, I cut the placenta from its belly. I attached a 2 mm and 5 cm long silicone tube to a 2 ml syringe and drew 0.5 ml of egg yolk and injected it by inserting the tube from its mouth to its foregut. I repeated this every 2 hours. It is currently standing and moving. Its eyes were closed. I diluted sodium hyaluronate with warm water and applied it to its closed eyes every 2 hours. It can open its eyes today. But it is very small in size and I continue to feed it. I named it "Sony". If it had not given me a voice, I might have buried it alive. and I watch him with admiration for his struggle to survive.I hope he survives.
Here are the images of this tiny Sony
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