Help Cracked Egg Day 20 - 22

[Morgan06]

I have some eggs under my broody hen. The eggs have reached their hatch date and have started hatching. Sadly, I heard chirping in one of the eggs when I left for work, but when I returned home I heard nothing. I did some research and everything I found suggested that the chick had died. I opened the egg and, sure enough, it had died. Everything I saw said lack of oxygen. I became paranoid, so every chick I heard chirping I kept an eye on it. If the chick had not hatched or pipped after a few hours I opened the top of the shell to provide more oxygen. (did not open the membrane) So, I did this for one chick and it was doing good and it was chirping. I left the coop for about 5 minutes and came back to check and my hens had hopped into the box and were pecking on it. The egg was bleeding heavily and had some yolk coming out. The chick was still alive on the inside. I ran inside grabbed a napkin and started trying to clot the blood. I was not sure it was going to live for an hour. I left the napkin around it and went inside and hoped for the best. Fast forward to this morning. I went outside to check on the egg and my other chicks. The chick to my surprise was still alive and breathing. The membrane is still kind of there. I can see part of the bottom of the chick. I don't know what else to do.
Any advice is greatly appreciated?!?!

 

[casportpony]

Can you post some pictures?

 

[SilverBirds]

Did you take the entire top off? It can take 24 hours for a chick to hatch so waiting for one hour was a bit hasty. If you're worried about them suffocating, you can make a safety hole. This has to be done with care as you don't want to hurt the chicks or hit a blood vessel.

Do you have an incubator? I think you should move the other chick into an incubator and let him finish hatching their. If left with the mother hen, he could continually be stepped on and pecked which can cause him to bleed to death, either by breaking of the blood veins or yolk.

 

[Morgan06]

Did you take the entire top off? It can take 24 hours for a chick to hatch so waiting for one hour was a bit hasty. If you're worried about them suffocating, you can make a safety hole. This has to be done with care as you don't want to hurt the chicks or hit a blood vessel.

Do you have an incubator? I think you should move the other chick into an incubator and let him finish hatching their. If left with the mother hen, he could continually be stepped on and pecked which can cause him to bleed to death, either by breaking of the blood veins or yolk.

Thank you for your help! I did not take the entire top off. It was the tip of a pen sized hole. My guess is the hens saw the white membrane sticking out from under the mom and started pecking. It had been chirping since I had left for work that morning. I agree that it was probably hasty. And all of the other eggs around it had hatched, so I was a bit concerned. I went home a few minutes ago to check on it and sadly it had passed away....

 

[SilverBirds]

Thank you for your help! I went home to check on it and it had passed away....

Aw, I'm sorry. Do you have any others left?

 

[Morgan06]

Aw, I'm sorry. Do you have any others left?

Yes, I currently have four hens sitting. 9 chicks have hatched. There is also about 6 more that are about to hatch. This is my first time hatching with a broody hen.