Not sure HOW this chick is still hanging on

[lswatson111304]

I have 5 eggs left of my busted/detached air cell shipment. All of them are still moving. 2 air cells don't look horrible, 2 look a little better than this one, but still bad and this one looks HORRIBLE! I don't know how this baby is still hanging on in there and I'm not really holding out much hope.

Day 14

 

[Melissa Rose]

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I've actually hatched some healthy chicks from eggs like your pic from shipped eggs so don't give up on it

 

[bikerchic]

I have too! They worried me the entire incubation and the peep popped out just fine!

 

[AHDCST]

Don't give up on them yet! I have had several like that or worse hatch. I even had one that stopped moving while it was hatching and I took a chance and finished pulling away the shell. I knew it might not make it with my help but it wouldn't make it without me trying. I even breathed a couple tiny puffs of air into it's little beak and it made it! It went on to a friend of mine that fostered some of my fall hatch chicks( remind my husband not to put several waves of eggs in the incubator-I ended up with 15 chicks at once!) since I had soo many hatch my brooder box was full as was my schedule. He sent them all on to a friend wanting hens. I don't believe in "locking down" the incubator at day 18. I watch and assist as needed with my little ones. Some times I can help and make a difference and sometimes I help and they fail but I have to try. I can't stand by and watch a helpless little thing try so hard and fail. Everyone has their way of handling the hatch but this is my way.