Sick keets

[tpotter01]

This morning I had my 6 guinea eggs hatch. They are all still in the incubator. 4 of them are doing great. They are drying and starting to get up on their legs and move around the incubator. The other 2 do not look well at all. They do not seem to have any control of their muscles. They can not keep themselves upright, they can not control their legs or their heads. They are usually laying on their sides with their legs kicking around. I am not sure what to do about them, if anything. Any suggestions?

 

[BigByrd24]

I would wait til the other 4 are ready to come out of the Bator and see how they are doing then. I've had a couple do something like that in past hatches but in a couple hours are doing fine. So just wait and see. Fingers crossed.

 

[tpotter01]

They all hatched around 8 - 10 AM today. Like I said the 4 are acting how I would expect. They are wobbly but now they are starting to run around the incubator. The other 2 are quite alive but look like bloated bodies washed up on the beach. They can not even hold their heads up. I will keep waiting but it does not look good.

 

[tpotter01]

It has been 36 hours and there is no change in these babies. Does anyone know a humane way of disposing of them?

 

[Guinea Goonie]

If you think the keets need to be culled, do a search on the baking soda and vinegar method.

I used this an a poor partridge rock chick that would "scream" when it had to poop. I never did understand why the poor thing was in such terrible pain.