I opened what I thought was a 100 percent dead egg to see what happened. It wasn't dead.

[ChickNanny13]

Don't use gorilla glue nor nail polish, the smell may affect the chick. Since it's hatch day is today, just keep the membrane oiled. Patience with the rest, don't give up on any too soon. Keep us updated.

 

[Little Jerry Seinfeld]

I learned in my first hatch the same thing you did, that blood rings do not mean an egg has died!
They all gave good advice, I've done coconut oil and it has worked well, it is antimicrobial/antibacterial too. I hope the chick is ok.

 

[Tatuana]

Don't use gorilla glue nor nail polish, the smell may affect the chick. Since it's hatch day is today, just keep the membrane oiled. Patience with the rest, don't give up on any too soon. Keep us updated.

Luckily for me I'm not fond of the smells, and don't tend to keep them around. I wrapped it in a wet paper towel (the broken end) and I make sure the membrane is moist. When I rewetted the towel a little while ago he was still kicking inside.

They're now all two days late, ugh. At least this one seems alive. I'll have to give it a tough little name.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Instead of rewetting the towel just oil it ... Rewetting will chill down the chick.

 

[Tatuana]

Instead of rewetting the towel just oil it ... Rewetting will chill down the chick.

Thanks! I'll do that. I warmed up the water before putting it on the egg, at least. I made sure it was the temp of the incubator.

 

[Little Jerry Seinfeld]

Thanks! I'll do that. I warmed up the water before putting it on the egg, at least. I made sure it was the temp of the incubator.

It doesn't matter, i had a paper towel under some eggs once for some reason, and the edge had fallen in the water reservoir unknown to me, the towel got wet under the eggs and the next morning all the eggs that were on the wet paper towel were dead, the day before the hatch. It was over 12 hours they were like that though, and completly on thick layer of soaking wet towels,
Since you had the towel on the open side of the egg, it should be fine.
Butbfor your purposes oil is definitely safer. Keep us updated on how your eggs hatch, im hoping they will do good.

 

[Tatuana]

It died. It didn't move again after I first looked at it. Today it had goop oozing out. The membrane broke I guess. No movement was seen.

 

[MelissaRose]

It died. It didn't move again after I first looked at it. Today it had goop oozing out. The membrane broke I guess. No movement was seen.

So sorry! I did the same thing once except I dropped the egg. It died a few days after it was supposed to have hatched. We all make mistakes! Not that it was your fault

 

[Tatuana]

So sorry! I did the same thing once except I dropped the egg. It died a few days after it was supposed to have hatched. We all make mistakes! Not that it was your fault

I'm terrified of the day I drop an egg!! I always feel like I'll somehow crush it. But if the egg can survive being shoved out of mama, I assume holding it should be fine.

When I was 8 or so I stepped on a kitten and killed it. (Blood pouring out of nose, it was fun). Since then animal deaths have been hard if I'm involved. But I can deal with normal deaths fine. I had a pack of feral cats that inbred all the time before I fixed them.

The good news is that when I went to take out the dead egg I found a pip! One is coming out on it's own.

 

[MelissaRose]

I'm terrified of the day I drop an egg!! I always feel like I'll somehow crush it. But if the egg can survive being shoved out of mama, I assume holding it should be fine.

When I was 8 or so I stepped on a kitten and killed it. (Blood pouring out of nose, it was fun). Since then animal deaths have been hard if I'm involved. But I can deal with normal deaths fine. I had a pack of feral cats that inbred all the time before I fixed them.

The good news is that when I went to take out the dead egg I found a pip! One is coming out on it's own.

Oooh! that's great, the pip, Good luck with the hatch!

So sorry about the kitten! I understand how animal deaths are hard, they are hard for me too, would be even harder if I killed a kitten.
I killed a chick once though, by accident, I stepped on it by mistake. I felt sooo bad about it.