gardenmama888
Chirping
Hello!
So this is my first time incubating eggs. I had 3 eggs that were to hatch Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The Monday and Tuesday eggs (small americana eggs) hatched yesterday and today but the Sunday egg (Maran) had shown zero progress. After reading about Marans and how hatch rates aren't great because of the thick shell I started to think I lost this one. I candled today (day 25) and saw no movement, no internal pip, no cheeping, so I decided to be happy 2 out of 3 hatched and move on. I opened the whole part of the shell where the airsac was to just make sure I wasn't throwing away a good egg (I had hardly any hope it was alive) and then I freaked out when I hit a small part of the membrane and it started to bleed. It stopped after about 10 seconds (I applied a tiny bit of pressure) and then I saw the chick wiggling around. I brushed it with a bit of oil so the membrane wouldn't shrink wrap her and then saw a ton of blood vessels still. Is this crazy that at a full 25 days she is alive and still hasn't absorbed the blood or pipped??
What should I do?? I have the egg in the incubator sort of at a 45 degree angle with the hole I made facing up-ish....I can't tell where it's beak is because of how squished it is....
Sorry the picture isn't great - I don't want to take it out of the incubator again so it is hard to get a picture.
So this is my first time incubating eggs. I had 3 eggs that were to hatch Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The Monday and Tuesday eggs (small americana eggs) hatched yesterday and today but the Sunday egg (Maran) had shown zero progress. After reading about Marans and how hatch rates aren't great because of the thick shell I started to think I lost this one. I candled today (day 25) and saw no movement, no internal pip, no cheeping, so I decided to be happy 2 out of 3 hatched and move on. I opened the whole part of the shell where the airsac was to just make sure I wasn't throwing away a good egg (I had hardly any hope it was alive) and then I freaked out when I hit a small part of the membrane and it started to bleed. It stopped after about 10 seconds (I applied a tiny bit of pressure) and then I saw the chick wiggling around. I brushed it with a bit of oil so the membrane wouldn't shrink wrap her and then saw a ton of blood vessels still. Is this crazy that at a full 25 days she is alive and still hasn't absorbed the blood or pipped??
What should I do?? I have the egg in the incubator sort of at a 45 degree angle with the hole I made facing up-ish....I can't tell where it's beak is because of how squished it is....
Sorry the picture isn't great - I don't want to take it out of the incubator again so it is hard to get a picture.