Hello everyone. I was hoping my first post would be a better one but I had an accident and dropped an egg. I've decided to start keeping chickens again after many mishaps with Foxes. New reinforced fence has been built and then I go drop an egg on day 3. Doesn't look as bad as the last poster but I dropped it real good. The egg white had popped out onto the floor.
I was just about to candle it to see if there was life inside so I quickly scooped it up, candled it and yes there was development so I dabbed away as much of the egg white as I could, and sealed it with wax - I would guess it took me less than a minute to do all this, I was very well prepared but this egg got severely shook and when I candled it there was no more air sack!
Worst case scenario would be that the yolk ruptured? I'm sure some are thinking, what's he worried about, just a £3 egg and I have justified replacing it because of that but still I feel bad but I will post an update either way. At the moment I think I just created a slow omelette or I introduced bacteria which will grow in the egg, that is why I tried to dab and wipe the egg white away but now that I think about it I think my odds are slim. I see there are some success stories of broken eggs hatching here but at 3 days? with egg sack having gotten squashed and jumbled in the egg? Here's to hoping. I will know in 3 days if it is still developing or not at least but if it is there's be more worry about bacteria. Incubting eggs is quite a stressful thing I find. Still can't get over one of my earliest mishaps when I had eggs hatch in a 7cm tall tupperware container. When the first 2 chicks climbed out of the tupperware they snapped their necks. I couldn't believe what had happened and didn't think such a small height would have been such a death trap but they must have flopped out onto their heads and snap that was it.
You learn from your mistakes but when it comes to raising eggs mistakes mean less chicks make it.
