Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[BluebirdHomestead]

I opened the top of the egg and he is indeed shrink wrapped. Applied triple antibiotic ointment to the membrane and pulled it back a bit.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

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Looks like all if the blood is absorbed and the membrane is clear. I would wait to let it push it's way out the rest of the way now that you've removed the dry stuff.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Looks like all if the blood is absorbed and the membrane is clear. I would wait to let it push it's way out the rest of the way now that you've removed the dry stuff.

It pushed out and something is wrapped around its legs. This is new. Hmmm like something is coming from it’s back end and wrapping its legs up.

 

[Trisseh]

I was just reading an article about chick development. Turns out their brain is outside of the head and slowly makes it's way in as the chick develops.

https://thepoultrysite.com/articles/embryonic-development-day-by-day

yep, I had read a similar article and thought that was pretty cool. This one you’ve linked to is more in depth, going to hang onto that!
My issue is that the brain was outside of the skull and almost completely closed outside of it. Teeny little opening in the top and a pendulous brain hanging out on the outside... :S Talked to my boss (who is a large animal vet) and he wasn’t sure why that might happen either. Not sure if birds can have a hydrocephalus condition? Or maybe my thermometers were out of whack so development was skewed? Guess I’ll be calibrating those suckers again. Not sure what else to do but check them and try again with fresh eggs...

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Pray for me...I'm about to buy cayuga hatching eggs and I've already been scolded once for spending too much on poultry stuff.

He should just be happy that I didn't buy the 7 leghorn chicks at TSC today. And they REALLY wanted me to be their mommy.

Even though my Cougars (stealing the kids word for them) are a touch old I just looovvve their colours! Even my husband appreciates them on a sunny day. You can see their pretty wings in this photo

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It pushed out and something is wrapped around its legs. This is new. Hmmm like something is coming from it’s back end and wrapping its legs up. View attachment 2043233

Is it the gooey greenish looking stuff? It's egg waste.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Ok baby is out. One leg seems a little weird like it’s kind of not going under him like the other leg. Wondering if this is spraddle leg.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Is it the gooey greenish looking stuff? It's egg waste.

I think it was dried membrane. I snipped it with sterilized scissors once I saw it didn’t have blood or anything.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Ok baby is out. One leg seems a little weird like it’s kind of not going under him like the other leg. Wondering if this is spraddle leg.

It may be splay/spraddle leg. Sometimes they just need a minute to get things worked out.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

It may be splay/spraddle leg. Sometimes they just need a minute to get things worked out.

Ok I hope that’s all it is. I’m worried about him.