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I have a fertile egg that is about 4 days developed. It has been cracked on the side but no leakage. What should I do with it?

I set 18 serama hatching eggs yesterday. I inspected them and didn’t see any cracks but this morning when checking them out in the incubator, I noticed one egg had a teeny tiny crack and had some dried liquid (very minimal). I took non scented candle wax and sealed it like I’ve seen some suggest...

My hens have constant access to oyster shells, high quality Kalmbach feed, and only a small amount of treats, like soldier fly larvae or veggie scraps. They even have calcium deposits on some of their eggs…so why are their eggshells brittle and cracking easily? Hens are 12 months old btw.

I have a hen who cracked an egg, I believe it fell from under her wing and hit the wood of the nesting box. It’s 4 days old and does have growth. Do I have to throw this out? I searched other posts and someone on an old thread said that her chick hatched fine without repairing it or doing...

My hens are pretty much consistently laying and I do give them eggshells for calcium. Their eggs are cracking though, one of the hens could just be stepping on all of them but I am not sure. If you have any recommendations that would be awesome thanks!

Picked fresh eggs (<1 day old) out of the coop today and this little egg looks to have some cracking on the surface. Cracks don't go all the way through and the shell itself feels sturdy. Wondering if there is a disease or potential malnutrition happening with this particular hen that she might...

...light), but went with what I had in order to get a pic of the crack) Now, I know I've seen other people have been able to still hatch cracked eggs. Is there any advice on what I can do to give this egg the best possibility of survival? How likely is it that it will survive in an egg that's...

I was candling it for my husband when it rolled and cracked! Any advice? Do I need to let it go?

Good evening everyone, Tonight I got into my water glassed eggs (from 3/17/23) and I had 3 eggs that only the shell was cracked, the membrane was intact. I have read in a number of places that if an egg is cracked, it ruins the whole batch. The water looked good, there was no "fowl" odor, I...

We just started raising coturnix quail, today is day 19 (day 0 is the day eggs went in the incubator) and it has been sort of a strange journey. I borrowed an incubator and ordered a dozen hatching eggs. They spent 8 days in the mail, 5 of 15 got crushed, 2 others had ruptured yolks (and one...

Hello, I am new to incubating eggs, my chukar patridge over almost 3 months has laid close to 60 eggs. Initially I had made a incubator out of a cardboard box and tried my best to maintain the temp at 37 to 38 degrees. The first egg made a crack on its shell on the 24th day and was out by the...

Help! I was candling my eggs. It’s day 10. One of them slipped and fell when putting it back in incubator. It has a small crack and has some blood on it. I’m so worried now. What should I do? Do I keep it going?

...day 2 of incubation, the crack looked sunken in.I immediately put melted candle wax all over the crack.Today is beginning of day four of incubation and i candled the eggs and the cracked egg has a developing embrio.Is there a chance that it cand survive all 21 days of incubation and hatch safely?

My hen cracked this egg? Could it be saved? It’s about 9 days in

The title pretty much says it its a really bad crack it partially crushed I don't think it broke the membrane I will try to get some photos

The title pretty much says it its a really bad crack it partially crushed I don't think it broke the membrane I will try to get some photos

Egg was under a broody hen, not sure what happened. Egg should have no longer than a week left. It's very developed with "scaly" legs and it's fully fuzzed.. Lots of movement. I spritz some warn water on it because it was very dried out. 2nd pic shows a slit in the membrane. I don't think it's a...

...may try and hatch. I did hatch our a duck egg that got cracked by a hen on day 8. I took the egg from the hen, (never trust a hen with a cracked egg.) I put on nail polish, and put the egg in an incubator with hatching eggs. (More moisture.) I kept moving the egg to incubators with hatching...

Our white easter egger Finaly started laying but she is a menace. She goes in the nesting box and shoves or steps on any other chicken in there till they leave And she will try to kick their eggs out of the box. How can I curbe this behavior so we do not have cracked eggs?

it's still alive but I don't know what to do!