Incubation disaster, PLEASE HELP!!

[Gabbymassicotte]

I wanted to share my current situation with everyone on this website. I put 12 eggs in my incubator on April 17th. I candled at day 7 and 2 were not fertile, leaving me with 10 growing babies. I didn’t have any quitters and today is day 20, all eggs have pipped or hatched. I had 4 hatch last night that were still drying in the incubator. I ran to the store only to receive a call from my roommate that she had walked by my room and found my whole table and incubator on the floor. All of the hatched chicks were fine, but all except 2 of the eggs were broken. It looked like the incubator had fallen on 2 of the eggs leaving them completely crushed. I had no idea what to do so I attempted to help both chicks out of the eggs since the membrane was so dry. Both lived and there was no bleeding, although one is quite weak now. I still have 4 eggs with live babies in them that are unable to get out, most of them have one crushed side. I ended up chipping away at the pieces in hopes that they could finish hatching, or at least try. I do not know what else to do to try and help the babies survive. They are all alive and chirping but I am worried. I cannot find any help in the web so maybe you guys will have some advice. Please help!!

 

[BantyChooks]

So sorry! Out of the remaining eggs, have any internally pipped, or can otherwise access air?

 

[ronott1]

I am sorry to read this!

Apply some type or oil on the cracks and watch for signs of life in the eggs.

There some good guides to assisted hatching in the articles:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

 

[Gabbymassicotte]

yes, I am positive 3 all have access because I can see the beaks. Only one I am not sure about. One has almost half way hatched but I believe it is stuck to the shell.

 

[Gabbymassicotte]

Thank you so much!!

 

[featherhead007]

It fell on the floor? Do you have a cat?

 

[BantyChooks]

yes, I am positive 3 all have access because I can see the beaks. Only one I am not sure about. One has almost half way hatched but I believe it is stuck to the shell.

Do any of them have visible veins? How do you think the half-hatched one is stuck? Can you get pictures? The link that Ron posted is a good one.

 

[Gabbymassicotte]

I have a dog, we didn’t even think anything of it because she’s never shown interest in our past chicks

 

[Gabbymassicotte]

one of them has quite prominent veins when the membrane is wet, so I know not to touch it. The other one has some tiny veins and the halo hatched one didn’t have any. I read I should peel away the membrane once I no longer see veins and I did.

 

[BantyChooks]

one of them has quite prominent veins when the membrane is wet, so I know not to touch it. The other one has some tiny veins and the halo hatched one didn’t have any. I read I should peel away the membrane once I no longer see veins and I did.

Good job. On the egg with no break in the membrane, is it active? If you candle it, can you see a beak in the air cell?