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Chick is doing brilliant. I have to intervene this morning and nearly all of the yolk and blood was dried, but I noticed a slight amount still in the lower membrane, so I left the bottom part of the egg attached - and waited!! I was worried, but amazingly I came home to a happy healthy chick...

Thank you everybody on your replies. I am going to take your advise and keep the membrane as moist as possible. I have a damp cloth around it now and it seems to be helping and I will keep dabbing the membrane with water. The chick is still ok in there, but not as active and hopefully thing...

The hole is far to big to close it up and the chicks beak is clearly on display. The membrane hole is relatively small (1cm), but the shell missing is about the size of a 50p, but only the outer membrane keeping the chick in. I am presuming that I cannot intervene until there is no blood in...

By the way, that should have said it WASN'T my decision to breed them!! But as I am the 'animal' person in school, it has been left with me to look after them, as hopefully I will do an Ok job, and that is why I need help. The students are relying on me to make sure they are all ok.

I am a teacher at school, where we keep chicken. We have tried to hatch some chickens at school by using a broody hen. I am new to all this and it was my decision to breed them. However, it has been allowed, but everything seems to be going wrong. First the chicken turfed out several eggs...