Emergency - cracked egg on day 19

I was minding my own business when I smelled something. I thought "no you pooped on tge eggs again?" I let her off the nest and another egg broke. There is a dead chicken inside. It was stinky but it didn't contaminate the other eggs. There was no fluid inside.
So now it's down to 4. We will see tomorrow what comes out of this whole exercize.

Btw her poop is bloody.
 
Thank you for all of the responses.
The little chicken is dead. The outer membrane was ruptured and completely dry. There were tiny blood vessels and no internal bleeding. It must have gone recently, it was fully developed in the perfect position but did not pip. It was a good looking chicken.
I hope the rest will be ok. If there is one fully grown there has to be more. There are 5 eggs left. I removed 3 empty ones. I am surprised about them because I thought I saw spider veins but today nothing. That's kind of weird that I wouldn't notice and 5 roosters could't make more fertile eggs that's a bummer.
Today we are 5 eggs less.

Soon it will be day 20. I'm keeping all fingers crossed.

I will be lucky if one hatches, and with my luck it will be a rooster.
I'm so sorry as110, it's so disheartening to lose a fully grown chick in shell :hugs I'm not certain how many hens to rooster ratio you have, but with 5 roosters competing to mate it's not uncommon to have infertile eggs. Most times what happens when one goes to mate, one or more other roo's try to mate the same hen at the same time. Then nobody is effective because they are pushing each other off. I think the hen to roo ratio is 1 roo/to 10 hens if I'm not mistaken. If you don't have that many hens I would temporary remove at least 3 of the roosters & see if your egg fertility increases. Wishing you the best of luck with the 5 remaining eggs :)
 
I was minding my own business when I smelled something. I thought "no you pooped on tge eggs again?" I let her off the nest and another egg broke. There is a dead chicken inside. It was stinky but it didn't contaminate the other eggs. There was no fluid inside.
So now it's down to 4. We will see tomorrow what comes out of this whole exercize.

Btw her poop is bloody.
I'm sorry to hear that. It is abnormal for your hen to have bloody poop. When they are broody it is not uncommon for them to poop a huge dark green/blackish stinky mess. If her droppings are bloody I would suggest you go to the Emergency forum & post the info about your hen. Poultry illnesses are beyond my scope of knowledge. Other than to say that a bird with Coccidiosis will poop bloody stool. Head on over to the Emergency & Illness thread & see if someone there that has better knowledge in treating birds with health issues can help you out. @Wyorp Rock
 
She had runny poop on and off. I assumed it was coccidiosis and I started corid. She was already eating medicated starter. Her poop firmed up today. I also gave her vitamin supplement.
This hatch was a flop. I will try the new incubator. I am just weary because we have power outages.

All her remaining eggs were sloshy and I discraded them. She went back on the empty nest. I took her back to the coop and she went back to the original nest box. I guess she will stop when she is ready. She is free to go and not locked up. We will see how it goes.
 

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