What's wrong with him?

[BirdsBeesTrees]

My humidity wasn't above 61 in lockdown and not 50 before that. It was at 70 when he hatched

So, you calibrated that? Because you can't just go by what the machine says as they are notorious for being wrong.

 

[Midwestmomma]

Also, I can see that you don't have anything on the bottom of the incubator to keep chicks from slipping. If they don't have some kind of slip resistant flooring than they will get slipped tendons and will never be able to walk either.

So, you calibrated that? Because you can't just go by what the machine says as they are notorious for being wrong.

2 hygrometers in there.

 

[Midwestmomma]

So, you calibrated that? Because you can't just go by what the machine says as they are notorious for being wrong.any other expertise because I am not sure to ou are correct about humidity considering how high I see sone people go

Pipped on day 20 to 21 now is day 22

Any other expertise to offer? I'm new but can read. Humidity may be culprit but our humidity was lower than many others standard at lockdown. Anything else cause this?
Any suggestions to make him comfortable or best way to cull in your opinion?

 

[Altairsky]

Sometimes things go wrong because they go wrong. It's nobody's fault. Things go wrong even with the perfect parameters.
Just let the chick be, if you're afraid to touch don't touch. The chick will either recover or die, just give it a chance. In nature it happens all the time. Don't feel bad about it, these things happen to the best of us.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Can someone tell me why it looks like this?

What happened with the rest of your hatch? Were the other eggs early or late pipping and hatching? Knowing what happened to the rest of the hatch might help us understand better. When something goes wrong I try to determine if it is an individual problem or a flockwide or hatchwide problem.

For whatever reason that chick hatched before it absorbed the yolk. It is not supposed to happen that way but sometimes it does. I cannot give any better advice than you have already received. That's not why I am posting. I'm more interested in looking at why it happened and if you need to do anything different next time.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Any other expertise to offer? I'm new but can read. Humidity may be culprit but our humidity was lower than many others standard at lockdown. Anything else cause this?
Any suggestions to make him comfortable or best way to cull in your opinion?

It will probably pass on it's own. If it doesn't I just use scissors to snip off the head at the neck. Sorry if that's too graphic. I get everything positioned, look the other way, snip the neck and drop it into the trash. It is very quick and they don't suffer. In the beginning I put a little napkin over their head so I didn't have to see anything either.

I usually hatch all my chicken eggs at 50% humidity. Were these eggs shipped?

 

[Midwestmomma]

Sometimes things go wrong because they go wrong. It's nobody's fault. Things go wrong even with the perfect parameters.
Just let the chick be, if you're afraid to touch don't touch. The chick will either recover or die, just give it a chance. In nature it happens all the time. Don't feel bad about it, these things happen to the best of us.

Thanks. I did intend to get shelf liner then forgot. We did our first hatch in identical incubator chicks were perfect so it didn't seem as pertinent
I have the other going and is full. This lone guy today was out of some eggs we snagged fertilized by rooster we lost. I am just waiting it out it's a mess.

What happened with the rest of your hatch? Were the other eggs early or late pipping and hatching? Knowing what happened to the rest of the hatch might help us understand better. When something goes wrong I try to determine if it is an individual problem or a flockwide or hatchwide problem.

For whatever reason that chick hatched before it absorbed the yolk. It is not supposed to happen that way but sometimes it does. I cannot give any better advice than you have already received. That's not why I am posting. I'm more interested in looking at why it happened and if you need to do anything different next time.

He was a lone egg. We had a few others but none were fertile in that group. Different hen. I hatched in identical incubator few weeks ago maybe 2 this one's full siblings and they were perfect. This one was just weird. I posted early in day worried about the way he was pipping.

 

[Midwestmomma]

It will probably pass on it's own. If it doesn't I just use scissors to snip off the head at the neck. Sorry if that's too graphic. I get everything positioned, look the other way, snip the neck and drop it into the trash. It is very quick and they don't suffer. In the beginning I put a little napkin over their head so I didn't have to see anything either.

I usually hatch all my chicken eggs at 50% humidity. Were these eggs shipped?

No I had a rooster for a short while. My other hens didn't love him yet so I didn't expect a lot. This eggs hen was paired up with rooster and 2 chicks I hatched from them couple weeks back were and are great.

 

[Midwestmomma]

He's just chirping away. It busted and there's liquid everywhere. Not sure if I should mess with him or not

 

[Midwestmomma]

I've never even lost a farm store chick getting a few here n there over 20 years. Feel horrible. I'll keep humidity lower on the next