Please help! New to hatching! Day 27 and no pips!

[aart]

Poultry Nutri Drench

It's the best for hatchlings, as it's immediately absorbed.

Haven't got anything like that, no.

Hmm... trying to think of someone in UK that could suggest a similar product.
@sumi @Yorkshire Coop

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

@bluekii You could try this ~ https://www.theincubatorshop.co.uk/products/details/nettex-poultry-nutri-drops-30ml.html

 

[bluekii]

She is still alive!

But do you think her eyes look a bit wonky to me? She has the left one (her left) squinted a lot and it just looks more.... bulbous?

 

[aart]

But do you think her eyes look a bit wonky to me? She has the left one (her left) squinted a lot and it just looks more.... bulbous?

Kinda.... wonder if it's just the dried 'hatch gunk'...might look better once she's fluffed out??
How's that foot looking?

 

[bluekii]

Kinda.... wonder if it's just the dried 'hatch gunk'...might look better once she's fluffed out??
How's that foot looking?

Her feet are fine now she's running around eating & drinking with the others. She's like half their size it's pretty adorable.

She keeps closing that left eye though. Wonder if it needs a wipe or if it could be infected?

 

[aart]

She keeps closing that left eye though. Wonder if it needs a wipe or if it could be infected?

Take a close look under a bright light...could just be gunky or have a piece of fuzz in there...I wouldn't jump right to 'infected'. Might start with a saline rinse.

 

[chickens really]

Don't bother doing anything. Get it into the Brooder. I hang a mirror and provide feed and water. I give new hatchlings a bowl of wet soupy food too..

 

[Absolutely Quackers]

Well done for getting her out alive!! Just bathe that eye with warm water on a cotton wool ball - keep it clean and it should be fine. I let mine have their first bath in about 2 inches of warm water in the sink when they have been hatched for 36-48 hours - this rinses off the gunk from the hatch. Just enough water so they can touch the bottom with their toes. Google ChickVits on Amazon for the vitamins and dilute this in their water. It's about a fiver. B

 

[bluekii]

Well done for getting her out alive!! Just bathe that eye with warm water on a cotton wool ball - keep it clean and it should be fine. I let mine have their first bath in about 2 inches of warm water in the sink when they have been hatched for 36-48 hours - this rinses off the gunk from the hatch. Just enough water so they can touch the bottom with their toes. Google ChickVits on Amazon for the vitamins and dilute this in their water. It's about a fiver. B

Thanks so much I will check it out!


Here are all three that hatched! Smallest one still closing her eye but I will bathe it & keep an eye on it daily.
Had to bathe one of them as he had poop stuck to his bum and it had solidified into his feathers, so bum checks daily it is! :')

 

[Absolutely Quackers]

How are you getting on with your little ones? I've got 3 new mallard hatchlings this week (rescued from a nest)!