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Now I think my other chick (formerly healthy) has either sour crop or a ruptured air sac. It has a bulge that feels like it is full of air but also threw up fluid when I massaged and held it upside down. I gave it some water with apple cider vinegar in it…any other advice you can offer? I...

It is still alive! We call it Cooper - Cooper still hasn’t fluffed out and is pretty unstable on its feet though 😞 One of our other chicks was not eating and just staying under the heating plate all day so I just put it in the incubator with Cooper and a mash of food with a little vitamins in...

Thank you for all the advice! We are all preparing for the chick to not survive but are hopeful :) It is trying to move around more so maybe we will get lucky!

Chick still had not hatched after 30 hours and was not making progress, first I tried to help by continuing its zipper - I peeled back pieces of shell to help the zip along then put it back in the incubator. 12 hours later and no progress so I helped it hatch. The shell came off easily with no...

Thank you! We got the other 3 chicks out. The one hatching is making progress and has quite a big hole now so we are just watching and waiting.

We have a chick who pipped yesterday and has now made some progress but has failed to hatch after 22 hrs. Three other already hatched chicks in the incubator- they all hatched 12 hrs before this one even popped. I am anxious to get to other 3 out of the incubator (they have now hatched almost...

Thank you, this is very encouraging!

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Hi all, I have my first flock of 14 hens, they are almost 3 months old. One chicken (Skates) had an illness that required her to be quarantined inside for more than a week. From my research (lots from this site), she had a vitamin deficiency of some sort. She is now recovered and we have...