Day 16--Candling & Cracked an Egg!!!

[Coffee N Chickens]

I was just candling and found 4 viable eggs. I dropped one of them into the sink and it cracked. I put it back into the incubator. Any hope???

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

I stopped panicking long enough to look at another thread and used wax from a tea candle to seal the cracks as best as I could. Here is a picture of it pre-repair. The line on the left is a pencil marking so I could check to see if the egg turner was working. The rest is cracking.

 

[Willawong Hill]

Good luck! As you would have seen from other posts cracked eggs can hatch. Good work sealing it now just keep a close eye in case it needs help getting out.

 

[LaurEliz]

I have had a hen for three years now who hatched from an egg that I had to reseal with crayon wax. She didn’t need any help, either, and now she’s hatched eggs of her own. I wouldn’t worry too much about your cracked egg. It definitely has a good chance of survival and it looks like you sealed it nicely. Good luck!

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

It's starting to pip on the narrow end of the egg! Come on, little one!

 

[yakitori]

It's starting to pip on the narrow end of the egg! Come on, little one!

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Good luck. Hope the hatch goes smoothly. What day of incubation is it?

Edit: just realised it was day 16

 

[LostBoi73]

It's starting to pip on the narrow end of the egg! Come on, little one!

Update Update Update! We want pictures

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Yesterday when I updated, it was Day 21. Two siblings had hatched, and the waxed egg was pipping slightly on the narrow end. This morning, nothing has changed. Fingers crossed for more pips/hatches!

And when they're fluffed up and cute, there will be pictures!

 

[Mellowmalt]

Pipping on the narrow end is the wrong end so it might struggle to open the egg. As long as it can breathe ok give it time but you might have to peel a bit of shell away if it struggles too long