Immediate crisis, abandoned egg, please help

[slordaz]

In your experience, do the moms then take in the chick once you hatch it out?

sometimes they do sometimes they don't, so best to have a brooder ya can set up quickly just in case

 

[analyticalblonde]

Update:
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I can't find a heating pad, the egg is actively hatching, so I literally put the egg on warm damp paper towels in a Christmas box and shoved it into a car. It's hot today, but not unbearably so, and a car with the windows rolled down is hot but not horrible.
So that's the plan for now. I stuck a thermometer next to the box so I can monitor the temperature.

I think your MacGyverism is amazing!!!....you are doing GREAT! Keep us updated...hoping for a happy, healthy sweetie soon for you!

 

[Dona Worry]

If this chick makes it out in once piece it's name is Cookies.

 

[slordaz]

If this chick makes it out in once piece it's name is Cookies.

way to make me want some now lol, looks like she's one tough cookie though

 

[microchick]

I just had a hen hatch two of three eggs and get off the nest with the two chicks. I rescued the third egg and plopped it under another broody until it hatched. The surrogate broody rejected it one day after it hatched. While the original mom was sitting on her two 24+hours old babies I gently tucked the new baby under her wing. She chirped at it, raised her wing like "where did THAT one come from?" and immediately settled back down on her three chicks.

Many try to reintroduce chicks at night while mom can't see what is going on. I would rather try it in broad daylight where I can keep an eye on things and get ready to intervene if it doesn't work out.

I would guess I've had success two out of three times. It's up to the hen when all is said and done.

 

[goldysgirl]

Update:
View attachment 1883852
I can't find a heating pad, the egg is actively hatching, so I literally put the egg on warm damp paper towels in a Christmas box and shoved it into a car. It's hot today, but not unbearably so, and a car with the windows rolled down is hot but not horrible.
So that's the plan for now. I stuck a thermometer next to the box so I can monitor the temperature.

Resourceful!

 

[Dona Worry]

Resourceful!

It was either that or boob egg turned into boob chick, and I did not want that.

 

[Willowspirit]

It was either that or boob egg turned into boob chick, and I did not want that.

 

[goldysgirl]

It was either that or boob egg turned into boob chick, and I did not want that.

Hahahaha!!!! The chick would probably be perfectly happy with the boob nest though!

 

[analyticalblonde]

It was either that or boob egg turned into boob chick, and I did not want that.