HELP I CAN NOT FIGURE OUT MY BABY CHICK IN THE EGG!!!!!!!

[Carson20034433]

We learn.....Next time:Hope that if you are wanting eggs to hatch, that you collect them every day, date them in pencil and keep them in an egg carton on your kitchen counter, until a hen sets. (She will set when Mother Nature says SET, not when the hen "decides" to set.) Hen Set when it is time, whether or not there are eggs in the nest, although her last egg is usually under her. Be sure you give her the number of eggs you hope to hatch and the freshest last one collected--AND ALL at the same time, so they will all hatch about the SAME TIME. Write it on your calendar--day you set the eggs and count ahead 21 days, for date they are due to hatch. Move the hen to a private place with feed and water, so other hens cannot not lay in her nest OR, if you do not, she may move to another nest where a hen as just laid her egg!! And her nest full could chill. Take no chance, if your want those chicks. CANDLE (flashlight with hands cupped around the egg.--and in darkened area) after day 4 with my bantams--day 5-6 large eggs. Fertile egg will have a "red spider and the red veins showing" FERTILE! If clear, take the egg out. I candle several times during the set. Next view will be a dark blob and later the air sack will show. Best and easiest hatch is when air sack is that the large end of the egg. If at the pointy end, keep watch, as that may be a breach baby and need help hatching, as there will not be enough air to take care of the time needed to get through that shell (it is hard work). It is such a neat project--love hatching, watching chicks grow--to happy hens! Good luck with this hatch and do not be sad if it is not a "perfect one"!

I just got done candlig and I'm fixin to post pics this baby doesn't look to good

 

[Carson20034433]

 

[Carson20034433]

That's the air sack and some empty space in the egg

 

[Carson20034433]

That's the other egg that stinks and has been same spot for two days

 

[Kiki]

If the egg stinks throw it away.

 

[Carson20034433]

But it's still waiting and it is still moving

 

[Kiki]

But it's still waiting and it is still moving

Then leave it alone and wait it out.
It will either hatch or it won't.

 

[Carson20034433]

Ok

 

[Kiki]

I don't hatch so I am not a good person to give advice in this situation.

I can't imagine there is much that you can do to change the outcome..what ever it ends up being.

I would go for a walk.

 

[Carson20034433]

It's a very fun and exciting thing to witness and I love it you should try sometime under a hen