- Jan 8, 2015
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To begin with, I am new to serama chickens few feks ago I decided to to buy 6 Malaysian serama hatching eggs from the internet and only 1 survived to actually hatch. I think is because some of the eggs wore contaminated with bacteria. Anyways on day 23 my chick started to hatch and normally I helped my chicks come out but this time I decided I was going to leve the chick in there so it hatch on its own.SO I left the chick in there and I came after 7-8 hours but there was no progress at all. I then decided to make a little hole in the membrane to make sure there was oxygen coming in the egg and the chick was not suffocating. aFter 12 hours I came back and there was still no progress of the egg hatching so I decided to help it hatch so I broke the shell carefully and and peeled it off but one then it started bleeding so I put back some of the membrane and let it hatch on its own on the next day though still no progres then I peeled the whole membrane and shells the chick had fully absorbed the yolk and it seemed to gave developed but I could see that it was bleeding a bit from the belly so I dried it out and left the chick in the incubator.The bleeding stopped in seconds it just dried off and it stopped but the chick kept of falling on its back and could not stay on its feet I tried putting plasters to straighten out its " fingers' but they kept on coming off and oh yeah I gave the chick some sugary water to give it some energy too. Anyways back to the feet problem I just finally too the plasters off I could see the chicks feet wore not straight but I woke up this morning and the feet wore not fully straight but they wore better than yesterday the problem is that I always find the chick on its back and whenever it tries to walk it falls on his back also I think one it can't stretch out one of his feet which suggests to me that can be one of the problem . What do you guys think about the situation I am in ? dO you think I could help my poor chick in any way? why did it take so long for the egg to hatch (24 days) ? Thank you