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It ended up being quite the traumatic day for that little chick. It dried out and started cheeping its head off and trying to get around. I saw that its feet and toes were curled in. It was walking on the outside edges of its feet and unable to stand properly. One of its legs was also splaying...

I ended up helping the chick hatch after most of the veins had gone and it was making thrusting motions with its head. The yolk has all been absorbed thankfully but the umbilical cord is still attached to chick and eggshell with a red vein going through it. The chick is lying sprawled on its...

I brought it inside, filled a hot water bottle with warm water and a cup with warm water. I put the cup and the egg on the hot water bottle and put a plastic Tupperware container over it. I have no way of telling the temperature or the humidity unfortunately. The chick is still swallowing and...

I need some help. My broody has been sitting on two eggs. The mother hen is off the nest and on the floor of the coop with the chick that hatched. The other egg has pipped and I could see the beak and so I gently used tweezers to remove the shell around the air sac. The membrane was dry so I...