Sweet result of doing nothing 🤣

[Finnie]

@Baymule. I think its okay. Looks like it absorbed it while drying off. But i am going to post a picture just in case you see something I don't...

Oh, we posted at the same time. I’m glad your chick is surviving. Must have been a small amount of yolk.

 

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Here it is ...

 

[Baymule]

We watch and wait to see if the chick will make it. How is it this morning? I know one thing, it is getting good care!

 

[NEWCOMER]

Also, at the same time another chick is hatching as well...and 3 dont look so far behind. The chick is fine...it just doesn't like not being able to hear the hatched chick.....

 

[NEWCOMER]

@Baymule it has some excess egg stuff on it still but its walking and talking sitting next to a chick who hatching and having a on and off conversation.

 

[Finnie]

Here it is ...

Yeah, when I have a chick like this, I keep an eye on it. I will usually put a grey leg ring on it, which is my code for a chick that had a problem at hatch. Sometimes my grey ring chicks grow up, but more often they develop an issue later during brooding and die.

I hope yours does well.

 

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The chick hatching is having a good time apparently, no chirps of "Hellloooo?!!!" Just contended quiet. So, I hope they both make it. Remember the chick I made this thread about? That's who I call Charm. Because no other chicks hatched s/he was lucky. But horribly alone. I hope this batch won't go through that.

 

[Baymule]

I hope he continues to improve. But like @Finnie says, chicks born with problems already have a strike against them. At least if you lose him, you are prepared for it.

 

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I mean, we all say that but it is heartbreaking to lose something you worked so hard to bring into this world.

 

[Baymule]

I’ve lost lambs and had them die in my arms. I hold them, knowing they are dying, but can’t leave them to die. It is gut wrenching, I cry, then dig a hole and we bury them. Thankfully it seldom happens. The worst was a newborn ewe lamb with her organs born outside her body and I had to put her down. There is hurt and sadness in raising animals, but a thousand times more joy than sad.