I feel really bad (please don't beat me up about this)

[ams3651]

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LOL perfect!

 

[justbugged]

This just comes under the heading of education. You have learned something the hard way. You can try to see if the other 2 will hatch. I would candle them and see if they have anything in them. I also listen to the egg very carefully to hear if the chick is peeping in the shell. I had one hatch several day after the other chicks, and my only clue was that it was peeping.

 

[rainnotebook]

I did candle, and I have a hard time making anything out when I do candle though. I see a big glob. But it did look the shape of a chick so I think there ARE chicks in there.... however are they alive I have no idea. I can't hear pipping but I tried listening to the other eggs right before they hatched and I couldn't hear anything then. So not sure if my ears are accustomed to that sound yet. But I didn't see any movement or heart beating. Again, I haven't been able to really see that on the eggs before. And these are the darker eggs, I wasn't able to see anything in them throughout the entire 21 days because they were so dark. I'm just going to keep them warm and moist and see what happens. I can't change the past, I can only learn from it.

Thank you all for your help and encouragement. I feel better now, not so awful. Thanks!

 

[justbugged]

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I think that a hens body produces humidity naturally. So the hen needs a good water source when she is setting on eggs.

 

[muddstopper]

Dont feel to bad about the trashcan chick. Eairlier this spring I had 200 eggs due to hatch, the hatcher was getting full of egg shells so I opened it up and cleaned out the broken shell. Somehow, I inadvertantly threw out a whole egg. Two days later my wife called me to give the tongue lashing I deserved, because the egg in the trash can had hatched and was makeing a heck of a racket. She took it out of the trash and and dipped its beak in water, placed it under the brooder lamp and it did just fine.

 

[lizzy06019]

What a hard lesson to learn

I'm crossing my fingers that Oscar pulls through. (LOVE the name btw) It sounds like you're doing everything possible for him and the other 2 eggs. Keep us posted on how Oscar and the other eggs turn out. I'm sure we'd all love pictures of Oscar when he's up for a photo shoot

 

[rainnotebook]

Now the other two eggs smell rotten or bad at least. Should I take them out and officially throw them away or keep them until tomorrow? Now I'm gun shy about doing anything with them.

As for Oscar, he seems okay, definitely better then when I first found him, but he's just not walking. I don't know what to do now for him and that.

 

[eggseroneous]

when I am to the point that it's time to pitch the ones that haven't hatched, (usually 4 days after the last one hatched-or when they smell!!)

I always open them to see what happened. It's gross and I always do it outside of course. I use something small and pointy to chip away at the shell. I am always sad when I find a fully formed, but dead chick. It does happen and most of the time, the chick just wasn't strong enough to break out of the shell. Nature's way.
When candling, is very hard to see anything when they get time to hatch because the chick fills the entire egg except the air cell. You won't be able to see a heartbeat--that's only when they are tiny. If you candle near the time of hatch and you CAN see through the egg, you know it wasn't fertile or it was a quitter.

Good luck with your little Oscar!

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

How is little Oscar? Is he eating or drinking?

 

[rainnotebook]

No, not on his own. But with my help he is. Still can't walk on his own. I can't see him surviving. :-(