Huge egg emergency!

[GeorgRodway]

They can be dried up blood. To be honest can you wet the membrane and see if there are blood vessels running through the membrane still if there is he she isn't ready yet if there aren't he she is most likely stuck so I'd help him out x

 

[GeorgRodway]

And I have had a few that haven't made a noise as well depends on the chick

 

[tofupup]

There seems to be a few layers of membrane. Does that sound right?

It seems like there is the opaque white membrane right under the hard shell, and right inside that, there is a translucent slimy membrane. The latter membrane does have blood vessels in it, and pulling it off the chick feels very wrong.

It's hard to tell what I am pulling on because there is a lot of slime and blood and the chick itself is apparently black so I can't really tell what I am looking at.

Am I wrong in thinking that he wouldn't have started hatching in the first place if he were underdeveloped?

 

[SIMZ]

They don't look like "chicks" when they're hatching - especially in this type of situation. No, I wouldn't think it would have started hatching if it wasn't ready. Although, the smashed and dented egg isn't how eggs hatch. It makes me wonder if somehow the egg was smashed by the hen or something.

That said, it's been so long in this situation that it may be too weak to get out.

I found a chick left behind from our broody that was trying to hatch. I panicked and pulled it out of the shell -- it was just as "horrible" as you're describing. It wasn't ready to be hatched and just laid there. I thought for sure it would die, and after a while I turned the heat lamp off. Much to my horror, I noticed it moving about an hour later. I flipped the light back on. At some point I gave it some Nutridrench because I knew it lost blood during the hatch. It took days, but that little chick pulled through. He ended up back with his hatchmates and lived happily ever after.

I guess the questions is how involved do you want to get? I think you can leave it under the mom and let nature take its course. It may hatch. It may not. You can also try to hatch it and see what happens. Unfortunately, it may not make it either way.

 

[SIMZ]

By the way, I'm sorry this is your first experience with a chick. I was so upset when I had this happen -- and I'm well acquainted with the tragedies that sometimes come along with hatches. It's really not your fault.

 

[tofupup]

Thanks, Everyone, for the input.

The final update on this chick is that he died finally.

After he died, I peeled back the rest of the shell and was horrified to find that he had a huge yellow yolk sac attached to him. So he must've really been suffering after his shell broke like that since he was way underdeveloped.

R.I.P., little chick...

 

[chickencrazy999]

R.i.p you did all you could

 

[gander007]

This is all part of the hatching process never a
good thing but all the same part of it R.I.P. little

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never give up and enjoy your experiences

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gander007