First I'll just get it out. I dropped an egg yesterday. It bled. It's still alive.
3 eggs in incubator.
2 due Saturday
One Due Today
yesterday, one of the Saturday chicks had zipped and hatched and the one due today was eternally pipped. Nothing on the other Saturday egg. It is a pullet egg, borderline what I thought was big enough, but I was worried maybe it was having an issue. I pulled it to candle because I have an empty running incubator I could put it back in and DROPPED IT.
On the bottom, tiny end. a drop of blood came out. I put mild pressure and it seemed to stop. Chick moving inside. I put it back.
After the chick due today hatched, I pulled cracked egg and still lots of movement. No pip. So I opened the air cell. slight receding veins and a struggling chick. No problem, I thought, there's enough receding to make a pip. So I did. the chip is screaming inside.
It turns out that is a leg. It's upside down.
Question:
Im still sort of worried about a few of these veins, should I go ahead and stick this in a cup in case that leg is able to wiggle free now?
The chick is not "distressed" loud chirping, but chirping fairly constantly and moving a lot.
Pic attached.
The bottom part of the egg is the top of the photo. I removed the shell parts that had the cracks in them and placed coconut oil around there to see what was going on. The blood is dried from yesterday. fairly clear veins but not 100%.
The bottom of the photo is the air cell. that's the leg right in the middle. Its not the clearest of photos, so it looks a little redder and darker in the shadows, but that's mostly veins and not blood.
Tagging @CluckNDoodle because I had messaged her originally to share my horror at dropping the egg in the first place. She reminded me that mamas step on their babies all the time. That's what friends are for!
3 eggs in incubator.
2 due Saturday
One Due Today
yesterday, one of the Saturday chicks had zipped and hatched and the one due today was eternally pipped. Nothing on the other Saturday egg. It is a pullet egg, borderline what I thought was big enough, but I was worried maybe it was having an issue. I pulled it to candle because I have an empty running incubator I could put it back in and DROPPED IT.
On the bottom, tiny end. a drop of blood came out. I put mild pressure and it seemed to stop. Chick moving inside. I put it back.
After the chick due today hatched, I pulled cracked egg and still lots of movement. No pip. So I opened the air cell. slight receding veins and a struggling chick. No problem, I thought, there's enough receding to make a pip. So I did. the chip is screaming inside.
It turns out that is a leg. It's upside down.
Question:
Im still sort of worried about a few of these veins, should I go ahead and stick this in a cup in case that leg is able to wiggle free now?
The chick is not "distressed" loud chirping, but chirping fairly constantly and moving a lot.
Pic attached.
The bottom part of the egg is the top of the photo. I removed the shell parts that had the cracks in them and placed coconut oil around there to see what was going on. The blood is dried from yesterday. fairly clear veins but not 100%.
The bottom of the photo is the air cell. that's the leg right in the middle. Its not the clearest of photos, so it looks a little redder and darker in the shadows, but that's mostly veins and not blood.
Tagging @CluckNDoodle because I had messaged her originally to share my horror at dropping the egg in the first place. She reminded me that mamas step on their babies all the time. That's what friends are for!
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