help in attempting to save premature button quail

[garett]

So I have been incubating 4 button quail eggs for 20 days now. I let them sit for an extra few days just in case. Well today I decided that I would open one up and see what had gone wrong. I do this with all of my bird species unhatched eggs just to learn from the failure. Well I opened it up expecting it to smell and it didn't and as I opened it I realized that the bird was only a day away from pipping. I warmed some water to 101 degrees and wet a few folded paper towels. I laid the bird on the wet paper towels inside the incubator and folded them up and over the body of the bird. Then I closed up the incubator. I am 100% expecting this bird 2 die and will remove it as soon as I am sure that it has. But I was wondering if anyone has had birds live in similar circumstances. And what else can be done to potentially save the bird. I thought I should add that humidity is already at 90% and temp is supposedly 100.

 

[sumi]

Did you take it out of the shell completely, or is it still halfway covered? So long as you didn't damage any major blood vessels in the membrane or the yolk sac it has a chance or surviving. But it's touch and go with premature hatches. Many of them don't make it. Good luck with your one!