- Jul 14, 2011
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I had a tube taped to the wall for adding water/humidity and when 2 of 4 potential chicks hatched (two still pipping) one got it's wing stuck to the tape! I'm not sure how long but no more than 30 minutes but it looked like it twisted it's wing and was still attached to the water tube!
I tried gently pulling the tube out hoping it would fall off the tape but that didn't work, then the other chick stumbled into the tape and got it's wing stuck too!
I read you can put your incubator in the bathroom with the shower on hot and open it for emergencies so I opted to do this. I got the bathroom humidity up to 80. First I cut the tape off the tube and was going to leave it to fall off when they dry but that was a mistake. One then got it's foot stuck to it and was pulling it's wing again! So I took them out one at a time on a moist warm towel and cut the tape off. Not much was stuck on at that point.
My questions are: did I totally stress them out and is that a risk for thwm to die?
Will cutting some of their down feathers be detrimental?
Is there any chance I srink wrapped the others? The humidity in the incubator stayed up as well as in the room too. They were not wide open just tiny tiny Crack you can see on night vision camera.
Could moving the incubator (twice) have been bad for other eggs?
First hatch (technically 2nd - did one one before, like 10 years earlier), this hatch portion was going well after many incubator issues, up until this epic fail
Picture just to show what I found (first) just before the second got stuck and I panicked and brought them up to the bathroom.
I tried gently pulling the tube out hoping it would fall off the tape but that didn't work, then the other chick stumbled into the tape and got it's wing stuck too!
I read you can put your incubator in the bathroom with the shower on hot and open it for emergencies so I opted to do this. I got the bathroom humidity up to 80. First I cut the tape off the tube and was going to leave it to fall off when they dry but that was a mistake. One then got it's foot stuck to it and was pulling it's wing again! So I took them out one at a time on a moist warm towel and cut the tape off. Not much was stuck on at that point.
My questions are: did I totally stress them out and is that a risk for thwm to die?
Will cutting some of their down feathers be detrimental?
Is there any chance I srink wrapped the others? The humidity in the incubator stayed up as well as in the room too. They were not wide open just tiny tiny Crack you can see on night vision camera.
Could moving the incubator (twice) have been bad for other eggs?
First hatch (technically 2nd - did one one before, like 10 years earlier), this hatch portion was going well after many incubator issues, up until this epic fail
Picture just to show what I found (first) just before the second got stuck and I panicked and brought them up to the bathroom.
