chick pipped, shell flaked off & bloody! Please Help!

[Jalyn247]

Good Grief Charlie Brown!! this is a first for me!

I have an Australorp hen that has been sitting on a clutch of mixed parentage eggs. Two of them have hatched successfully so far.. However, one of the Easter Egger eggs pipped, and I'm not sure if the hen started trying to help it hatch out or not, but almost all of the shell is off the membrane and it is bloody in areas around the split on the membrane. I don't want to lose this chick! Does anyone know if I can use blood stop powder to halt the bleed out, allowing the chick to be able to hatch out and thrive???

 

[Jalyn247]

Couldn't wait any longer, chick was bleeding out.. I went ahead and used it anyways.. now all I can do is hope for the best.

Bummed that no one answered my call for help in the 5 hrs since I posted it.

 

[Suzierd]

Really sorry no one answered your post in time. I'm afraid I'm not any help other then a bump up. I really hope your little guy makes it.

 

[kizanne]

I wish I knew the answer.

 

[Suzierd]

Post four might be helpful
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/472814/blood-coming-out-of-the-egg

 

[Suzierd]

Post eight used a styptic pencil
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/280165/please-help-lots-of-blood

 

[Jalyn247]

Thank you for sharing those posts.
I don't know if there is any such thing as too much of the blood stop powder... I put about a teaspoon or two... not exactly sure how much just opened the thing and poured some onto it.. onto the bleeding umbilical area last night. The chick was pretty weak, so I figured it probably wouldn't make it to the morning.
When I checked the nest this morning, the little bugger was in the corner of the nest, all fluffed out, chirping, and moving around.

YAY!! Still not as mobile as the 2 other chicks, but at least he/she is alive!

 

[Suzierd]

Yay! That's great news! I'm pulling for the little guy thanks for keeping us posted.