ASAP Need help fast! Chick hatching with no mother!

[Scottyhorse]

My parents found a chick that was starting to hatch in the barn. It currently has a nickle sized hole in the shell. Just a tad bit of blood showing. It's alive, eyes are open, peeping, and moving its mouth. Currently I have it in a small plastic container, in a larger plastic container that has a damp washcloth in it for humidity, with a desk lamp over it for heat. I've given it a bit of water, but I want to know what I can do to help it hatch. Don't want it to die or kill it. Should I make something else to put it in??

 

[lightchick]

You have no idea who the parent would be?

 

[Scottyhorse]

We do, but her chicks have already hatched (3 of em) and she has left the eggs. This one must have been laid 2 or 3 days after the others.

 

[Percheron chick]

You sound like you have a good handle on the situation.

 

[Scottyhorse]

It just stopped breathing and died

I feel like it's my fault, 'cause I took some of the shell off.

Poor baby

I am an idiot

 

[lovetopaint]

No you are not.

What you did is called assisted hatching. People do it all the time. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[lightchick]

It just stopped breathing and died

I feel like it's my fault, 'cause I took some of the shell off.

Poor baby

I am an idiot

Don't beat yourself up about it. It happens sometimes and you don't know how long the egg had been left there.

So sorry about your baby.

 

[calichicken]

No you are not.

What you did is called assisted hatching. People do it all the time. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

I'm sorry for your loss.

X2 and what you do know is that chick would not have survived if you just left it there..so at least you gave it a shot. So sorry!

 

[Scottyhorse]

Thanks guys

Kinda traumatizing. One second it's chirping, moving around, trying to get out, and literally the next second it's dead, not breathing, and bleeding.

Poor thing.