Help sticky chick, started helping, chick not ready

[phoenix912]

My chick was stuck in egg. Hole where it pipped was all crusty. I took it out wet the spot down. Put the egg back in bator. Checked on egg a few hour's later. The pipped area was hard. I zipped the egg and its membrane still has bloody veins. I don't think it was ready to hatch yet. It is in bator wrapped in wet paper towels. How long should I leave it like that? I know don't help but chick was stuck in place. Inside was getting hard.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I had a clutch of eggs that were abandoned by a broody the day before they were supposed to hatch. I made a make shift hatcher out of some tin foil, a styrafoam cooler and a dish of water. In theory it sounded like it should have worked just fine, but there wasn't enough humidity, so all of the chicks ended up shrink wrapped. I used a pair of tweezers and slowly and carefully picked the shell off the eggs, trying to leave as much membrane as possible. I left most of the bottom half of the shell intact as well (so as not to pull the umbilical cord from it). Then I used damp paper towels to wet the membranes a little and the chicks just sort of cut themselves from the membrane. A couple of them ran around the brooder for a day or so with the bottom halves of their eggs shells stuck to their tushies, but eventually those dried and fell off leaving normal fluffy chicks. I try not to help the chicks *unless* its some emergency or error caused by me. Good luck.

 

[mstricer]

Your humidity was too high during your hatch. Once you start helping and open incubator they will all be that way. Sorry for the bad news, I know because it has happened to me.

 

[phoenix912]

Thanks for the replies. It is out and doing good. You can't even tell which one it is now.

 

[Avonshire]

That is good news!!