Magweno
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Five out of eight pipped partridge eggs hatched without a problem but two pipped and then stopped - beaks out. Beaks out means the chicks are too big to turn - means my humidity was too high, right? 
I helped them out but now they can't sit up or stand up, they just roll around on their backs with their heads twisted flailing their legs. Is this because they grew too large for the eggs and developed wrongly because of the high humidity? Is there anything I can do? They have bright eyes and peep loudly, aside from their inability to turn right-way-up they seem pretty healthy.
One day I will learn never to help a chick out of its shell. Fingers crossed my bantam chick is a lady and she'll take over this hatching lark for me.
(By the way a follow up on my previous post about the peeping bantam chick: I managed to find a local bantam enthusiast who had an appenzeller with chicks the same age as mine. It's been adopted into the fold and is being raised there.)

I helped them out but now they can't sit up or stand up, they just roll around on their backs with their heads twisted flailing their legs. Is this because they grew too large for the eggs and developed wrongly because of the high humidity? Is there anything I can do? They have bright eyes and peep loudly, aside from their inability to turn right-way-up they seem pretty healthy.
One day I will learn never to help a chick out of its shell. Fingers crossed my bantam chick is a lady and she'll take over this hatching lark for me.
(By the way a follow up on my previous post about the peeping bantam chick: I managed to find a local bantam enthusiast who had an appenzeller with chicks the same age as mine. It's been adopted into the fold and is being raised there.)