Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

[thistlewick]

Are you able to see if there's still umbilical or unabsorbed yolk attached?

I wouldn't expect the humidity from the incubator to help much when it's that stuck, but I'd want to check it's "fully cooked" first before giving it a bath.

I ended up getting it out without much fuss - just qtips and warm water -- it was indeed fully cooked! It was just stuck in a TIGHT sac, also as I was telling Perris in the thread I made about it on the incubating and hatching forum here, there was some weird thick deposits INSIDE the egg sac, a large bit too -- it looked like very hard white meaty bits or very soft squishy calcium bits -- it was INSIDE the egg sac, next to the chick. Very weird.

But, it wanted to live, it was moving and peeping and pushing and trying, it seemed so relieved when I got it out of the sac.

I never, ever, thought I'd help a chick hatch -- I thought I would be pretty Darwin about it.

But seeing it alive and trying to live. I HAD to do something. I HAD to.

 

[thistlewick]

Here is the little sweet:

breathing strong, peeping loud when it peeps <3 hopefully it dries and stands and walks.


Will Tilly take it if I put it under her at night? Or will she suddenly see 4 and say NO!

 

[kattabelly]

there was some weird thick deposits INSIDE the egg sac, a large bit too -- it looked like very hard white meaty bits or very soft squishy calcium bits -- it was INSIDE the egg sac, next to the chick.

Did it look anything like this?

 

[thistlewick]

Did it look anything like this?
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Yes, but about four times that much - it was large, about a third of the shell, I'd say.

more news;


I went to check and it smelled and stank to high heaven, I opened the incubator to give the chick an ant's fart of nutri-drench and realized it was STICKY with yolk.

So I gave it a warm toasty bath, which it LOVED <3 (omg it was so cute) and the poor little thing is now back in the incubator.

This little one is a fighter, I gotta say.