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Rocky is doing well, but I have a new problem. Two other chicks hatched later than her and now that they are all in the brooder she won’t stop packing at them. I do t think she’s curious, she’s bullying them. Heat is fine, they have clean bedding, food and water. I have a little teddy bear and...

Well, it looks like there was no permanent damage to her! Buuuuuuuut, she now thinks I’m her mama since she was alone in the incubator for two days. (One other egg hatched this morning). She will only stop crying when I’m holding her and she climbs into my hand on her own. She also eats out of...

That’s the only thing I can think of. She’s still locked down in the incubator since the other eggs haven’t hatched, but I can’t see any damage to her. I’ll check her more thoroughly when I take her out.

Thank you! I’m honestly shocked with the amount of blood I saw. I still can’t figure out where it came from. Still nothing from the other eggs, but I feel like she hatched at least a day early.

Rocky finished hatching last night at 10:30pm! So far she looks great! A little small but she’s a tough little chick! It looks like she absorbed all of her yolk and I can’t see any damage from the attack. None of the other eggs have pipped, but I think she hatched a tad early because of the...

I pulled the membrane off of her face but that’s it. I normally don’t ever even attempt to assist, it’s that attack that has me really worried. I’m going to leave her alone for a couple of hours though to see how she’s doing. She already seems better with it off her face. She’s a little fighter...

Thank you so much for that. I went ahead and removed the membrane from her face and she seems to be breathing better. I’m hesitant to pull it off of the lower part of her in case she’s still absorbing, but she’s got a pretty good cheep going every few minutes. She’s making the nibbling movements...

Well, it’s been a couple of hours and she’s still trying. You can see the blood on the membrane, but the bottom part is still dried out. Wondering if I should try wiping more water on it. Every 15-20 minutes or so she’ll start cheeping again and push really hard, but she can’t seem to get the...

I have them all in the incubator now. Unfortunately, it wasn’t warmed up quite yet. I thought I still had three to seven days, so I was going to spend today setting up the incubator in case there was an emergency situation like this. Oh man. It’s almost worse to lose one like this than to lose a...

Oh man, I have more serious chicken drama! I went out of town a couple of weeks ago and my pet sitter forgot to check one of the nesting boxes. So of course one of my hens went broody and I came home to her sitting on a clutch of 9 eggs. I had no idea how long, so I just locked the coop and let...