Broody crushed egg day 19. Help!

[Lortnoc]

My GLW has been sitting on three fertilized eggs. Today is day 19. I went to check in her and heard peeping, looked under her and found one egg half crushed with half the shell gone. Chick is alive and moving under the membrane, which isn’t pierced on the crushed side. I looked in the other side and it looks like it pipped with a TINY air hole. I’m worried that she is going to crush and suffocate it before it can get out. I don’t have an incubator. Any suggestions?

 

[SilverBirds]

Do you have pictures of the egg?

 

[Lortnoc]

Do you have pictures of the egg?

 

[Lortnoc]

Little beak has pipped and the little one is breathing and chirping, so that’s promising.

 

[Chickens are awsome]

Do you have an incubator?

are you able to put some coconut oil on the membrane to help it not dry out?

 

[Lortnoc]

Do you have an incubator?

are you able to put some coconut oil on the membrane to help it not dry out?

I did not have an incubator. I can put some coconut oil on it to help it not dry out though!

 

[Lortnoc]

Update- she crushed that egg overnight and did the same to a second. There’s one left that has pipped and I hope this one survives.

 

[SilverBirds]

Did the others pass?

 

[Chickens are awsome]

Update- she crushed that egg overnight and did the same to a second. There’s one left that has pipped and I hope this one survives.

Oh gosh, I'm sorry about the eggs.
Is the one doing alright?

If you plan on letting her hatch any more in the future it may be a good idea to get an incubator as a backup if that happens again.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Mine did the same thing during a thunderstorm, the chick was allmost out of the egg, so he or she did not make it.