Oh no! I dropped it!

[Wooden_Pony]

I was candling some of my Self Blue D'Uccle eggs today.

I was sitting on the floor candling. This one I was looking at has a moving chick in it and I can not believe it! The egg rolled out of my hand and smacked right onto my hardwood floors.

This egg will be on day 18 tomorrow I re-candled and saw the poor thing moving but I cracked the shell on the egg. No bleeding... hard to tell if I torn the membrane but I figured no blood so hopfully I am ok on that one.

I put it in my hatcher I figured since the egg was cracked I did not want the membrane to dry out and tomorrow is day 18.

Has anyone here dropped a day 17 egg and had it hatch out I am so upset these are my DD's show birds!

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

OH NO! THis is waht I was worried about myself! I sure hope it's ok! OH I would feel horrible too but it was an accident. GOod luck with it!

 

[SpottedCrow]

I've heard that putting a moist towel over the egg can help in stay damp...but I've never hatched myself so I don't have any experience...
good luck with the wee one.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

You need to seal that crack with some melted wax. It can leak and kill your whole hatch.

 

[pips&peeps]

I wouldn't worry about it, it is about to hatch. There should not be enough liquid in it to ooze unless the humidity is too high.

I did the same thing a couple weeks ago and just went ahead and set it in the hatcher and the little thing made it out just fine.

Do not seal it with wax.

 

[Wooden_Pony]

Thank you everyone for your help.

SpottedCrow I thought the same thing you did. Dring out so that is why I placed it in the hatcher. The humdity is between 65-70% so I figured the crack would be like a pip.

Farmer Kitty, I am on day 18. Well today is. With it at day 17 when dropped and now day 18 today it should not leak as there is nothing but a chick in there, yes if it was earlier I would have sealed the crack I have done that before on eggs that arrived cracked.

pips&peeps, that is great that your's made it I really hope this one does to!

I need to change my user ID to ButterFingers. I heard peeping in the hatcher last night I am not sure if it was from this egg or the others in there. I was keeping my fingers crossed it was from our dropped one.

We shall see how this plays out!

Again thanks for everyones help on this!