Help! Mom pecked baby as it was hatching

[Sea Wolf]

Get a styptic pencil for shaving cuts or a container of the powder you put on a dog/cat toenail when accidentally cut. "Quik Stop". Any good pet store will have this. Get the powder, wet your finger and dab the powder on it. Press it gently to where the wing is bleeding to stop it. You can also try cornstarch but you will have to press and hold it to the wound with some pressure to get it to work.

 

[Shadrach]

Much like @ChickenCanoe I don't interfere. I get mums abandoning semi hatched eggs.
I've got a baby killer here currently. I just don't let her sit.
I never try to rescue chicks from mums.
Occasionally a chick will work it's way forward in the nest and the mother knows it shouldn't be out in the open and pecks at the chick to try to encourage it back underneath her. Sometimes the chicks can't navigate the straw in the nest; I'll intervene then and put the chick under the other rear end. This seems to solve the problem.
Then again, I would never put eggs that are not the mothers under her to hatch and I certainly wouldn't put duck eggs under a chicken.
The incubator idea is not a good idea imo. Ime once a mother rejects a chick that is the end of the matter, she will not accept the chick at a later date.

 

[pntdhorses]

How’s the bleeding now?

It’s mostly stopped but the little wing is getting pretty red with the little trying to hatch. It keeps rubbing up against the shell. It is a little fighter. It wants out of that egg!

 

[pntdhorses]

Get a styptic pencil for shaving cuts or a container of the powder you put on a dog/cat toenail when accidentally cut. "Quik Stop". Any good pet store will have this. Get the powder, wet your finger and dab the powder on it. Press it gently to where the wing is bleeding to stop it. You can also try cornstarch but you will have to press and hold it to the wound with some pressure to get it to work.

I do have Quickstop. I’ll put some of that on. I just hate to keep opening the incubator.

 

[Sea Wolf]

You will not be able to put this chick under the other mother hen. There is also a good chance that the mother with the chicks now will also attack those. Ducks do not act and sound like chickens and the mother may well attack them because they are making the wrong sounds and behaviors for a chicken. You should remove the other ducks from the mother and keep them all together to raise them yourself before there is an accident. Your wounded chick should have friends anyway for comfort and to prevent stress.

If the chick has not progressed further, you might want to help it a little by breaking away some more of the shell. It might be weakened by it's struggles and blood loss.

 

[pntdhorses]

Update:

Baby has been hatched since about an hour ago. I did give it a little help because it was really rubbing its wing badly on the jagged eggshell. Boy, it’s a little fighter...lol. Wing is a little raw, I did put some natural antiseptic on it that I have for my chickens. It is nestled happily under the other mom. So far she is doing a wonderful job so I’m not worried but will keep checking. They are all in the house so I can keep watch.

I do have one more baby left to hatch. It had not pipped at all so I did break a hole so it has air. I also took a little bit more shell away as it seems possibly shrink wrapped. It is in the incubator with 73%humidity. Should I leave at that, maybe go a little higher? It seems to be resting and has not tried to get out yet at all. I think it might not be completely ready yet so I’m not going to mess with it unless there is absolutely no progress after tonight.

 

[Knighstar679]

I would certainly leave that second one alone for now.

Congratulations on the one baby!

 

[pntdhorses]

I would certainly leave that second one alone for now.

Congratulations on the one baby!

I actually have 2 that have already hatched and under Mama hen! Yay! Just waiting on this 3rd. It was actually an egg that cracked upon arrival and I sealed it with candle wax so very happy it developed. 5 of them completely spoiled pretty quickly so that was a bummer!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Once the inner membrane dries out and hardens, no amount o humidity will loosen it.

 

[pntdhorses]

Once the inner membrane dries out and hardens, no amount o humidity will loosen it.

Well it hasn’t struggled at all to get out so should I wait and see if it’s gonna try or start trying to peel away the membrane?