Crushed day 20 egg

[bpoore04]

Ok so I went to check on my chickens and I went to see the broody and I looked under her cause I thought that maybe one might have pipped ya know just hoping and I looked and one was completely crushed and there was blood on it. I didn’t think that it was still alive but it was still warm where it was still under her and I took it out and started chipping the shell off in little pieces making sure I stopped if it bled anymore and it started moving. So it is still alive. I chipped all the shell off that I could and it has broke into the air cell because it has started chirping but I don’t know what else to do. I have it in the incubator right now with a heat lamp above my incubator because it doesn’t heat up correctly. What should i do? Do I need to put water in the incubator so the membrane doesn’t dry out?? Someone please help

 

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Personally, I would have left the chick under the broody hen.
Nature knows best. I have put chicks under broodies in the past I thought were close to dead and the next day was unable to tell the sick one apart from the healthy ones.

 

[bpoore04]

Personally, I would have left the chick under the broody hen.
Nature knows best. I have put chicks under broodies in the past I thought were close to dead and the next day was unable to tell the sick one apart from the healthy ones.

This is my first time actually hatching eggs so I wasn’t sure if the mom would peck at it or not since it was bleeding. All of my other chickens will peck at red

 

[bpoore04]

But now that it’s already out and in my incubator is there anything else I can do? Do I need to have water in there for humidity or no?