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Actually, yes, I have. I have a blue splash girl that is gorgeous with a bit of leakage. Not terrible though, but it is there. She produces nice chicks, no leakage yet that I have noticed on any of them as they are growing out.
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Thank you for answering! I didn't see it, I guess. I'll have to go back and look again. It's probably more obvious to you. I have a splash pullet that has gold leakage in a V shape around her neck, but otherwise is beautiful. I'm back and forth on breeding her or not. Right when I decided against it, someone suggested giving it a shot, so I'm going to see how bad/good it turns out. Figure I can sell the chicks on CraigsList as pets if it all goes very, very wrong.
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I'd much rather buy some hatching eggs from someone on here. But we found out we're going to be moving this summer possibly (my DH's company is closing up shop here) and I don't want to have too many chicks running around in the middle of a sale and move. Sigh. This kind of ruins our 4-H plans for this spring/summer. Anyway-- have you had luck with breeding a bird with a bit of leakage and getting good offspring??
 
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I had a little pullet do that! she would look down at food or water or even preen herself her neck would spasm head turn to the side and tuck under her body, she would walk backwards into a corner, and stay in that position. I tried helping her but i lost her in the end, at that time i was having a problem with my little pullets her same age dyeing so when she passed i had her little body sent for a necropsy and the findings like the rest of her siblings that passed was Marek's but I believe she was suffering from something else besides Marek's, but I never found out the cause of the neck problem cause she died of Marek's before i could!
Hopefully some one else will come along and have an answer for you!
 
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I had a little pullet do that! she would look down at food or water or even preen herself her neck would spasm head turn to the side and tuck under her body, she would walk backwards into a corner, and stay in that position. I tried helping her but i lost her in the end, at that time i was having a problem with my little pullets her same age dyeing so when she passed i had her little body sent for a necropsy and the findings like the rest of her siblings that passed was Marek's but I believe she was suffering from something else besides Marek's, but I never found out the cause of the neck problem cause she died of Marek's before i could!
Hopefully some one else will come along and have an answer for you!

I also had a young girl that did this...I thought it was because an older bully chick had pecked her on the head??? Tuck her head between her legs, stumble backwards and get stuck in a corner, and fell over herself ect... went and bought a new hand axe that day but she recovered??? I was giving her vitamins and electrolytes in the water??? She did it for a couple of days but has made a full recovery??? And is still fine today...

I was also told to use some vitasol? Baby vitamins??? But didn't..apparently that is good?
 
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I'm sorry I missed your post! Have you been keeping the incubator closed and the humidity high (at least 60 degrees) If not the chick may have gotten too dry to hatch. I usually can't resist helping after 24 hrs. though some people think you shouldn't try. Here's some good info.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9316

Ya it has been closed and we have been keeping it at about 65%. We tried posting it in the incubation section and didn't get any real response. So i tried here since they are silkie eggs.
 
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I'm sorry I missed your post! Have you been keeping the incubator closed and the humidity high (at least 60 degrees) If not the chick may have gotten too dry to hatch. I usually can't resist helping after 24 hrs. though some people think you shouldn't try. Here's some good info.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9316

Ya it has been closed and we have been keeping it at about 65%. We tried posting it in the incubation section and didn't get any real response. So i tried here since they are silkie eggs.

Did that link give you enough info? I had a chick on my last hatch that broke it's yoke and was all glued in the yolk. It took me forever to get it out and cleaned up but of course it didn't get all that important yolk. It lived about 10 days. I sure hope your little one makes it.
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I'm sorry I missed your post! Have you been keeping the incubator closed and the humidity high (at least 60 degrees) If not the chick may have gotten too dry to hatch. I usually can't resist helping after 24 hrs. though some people think you shouldn't try. Here's some good info.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9316

Ya it has been closed and we have been keeping it at about 65%. We tried posting it in the incubation section and didn't get any real response. So i tried here since they are silkie eggs.

If there is yolk in the egg crack then chances are that peep pipped much too early. The instruments you use to monitor temps and humidity are vital in having successful hatches.

Experience in hatching is necessary when stepping in to help a chick. I will help a chick out after being pipped for 24 hrs because the membrane can dry and toughen once exposed to air. The problem you could be facing now is that your temps were running a tad low and the hatch shouldn't actually happen for another day or two.
 
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Try the polyvisol vitamins for a few days, a couple of drops in the beak. When I use electrolytes I use Pedialyte, tastes better and they are more willing to drink it.

I have an old head injury girl, when her nutrition is lacking she begins to tuck. She is my early warning system when things are not quite right in my coop. Her head injury happened six or seven years ago and other than occasionally tucking is quite normal.
 

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