Still Alive?

He (lil bob) sounds as though he's suffering from wry neck as-well as curled toes ... both associated with prolonged hatching.

My advice would to be to dip his beak in water to make sure hes has fluids ....

I would imagine he will be dehydrated as well as emaciated as his yolk supply isn't designed to last an extra 5 days. If he's not up and running after and not attempting to eat after 12 hours, I would serious consider dong him the kindness of putting him to sleep as he's likely to be plagued with problems that usually result in death

Good luck with him

Suz

The little bob died this morning... sad but not entirely unexpected. Despite my efforts, it seems that his system was just too stressed by trying to suddenly adjust to the intake of food. He was unable to lift his head to eat or drink without help (I tried getting him to peck on his own, but he kept his eyes closed most of the time and was too weak to do anything). He was probably starving inside the egg for two days before the hatch, and just couldn't recover from it.

Although I usually discourage helping chicks to hatch, if anyone should ever have a situation like this (power outage or whatever the case may be), I definitely suggest removing half of the shell and wetting the membrane to help the chick free itself from the egg. For a normal hatch, however, I would discourage keeping eggs in the incubator for longer than 2 or 3 days after a hatch. In retrospect, I wish that I had helped this bob earlier, because, despite the circumstances, he may have been strong enough to survive if he had not been left in the egg (starving) for so long.

Thanks to everyone for your advice/support!

sorry to hear that

hi sorry to hear that but we know you did your best at the time . we can all
look back at times and think if only, I know we have.