OH NO OH NO!! I cracked an egg while turning! Help~ HAPPY UPDATE

[bargain]

Don't leave it out of the incubator TOOO long ....Please put it back in ...Thanks and have a blessed day!

 

[MoodyChicken]

It will be just fine as long as bacteria doesn't enter through the crack. In labs scientists crack open eggs in jars and incubate them that way... a few make it to term and live. ... if that's any consolation.

 

[chickie_mama]

I dropped a golden seabright egg and it cracked. I immediately put candle wax on it. It hatched and is a perfectly healthy chickie-poo!

Good Luck~

 

[IggiMom]

When I cracked an egg, someone else said he had good luck with super glue.

I do not know this of my own knowledge, though.

Catherine

 

[rizq]

I do not have any advice, but I can definitely empathize. I just pulled an egg out to candle and as I tried (yes gently) to pick it up, my fingers went into the egg on both sides!

I am so upset. It was not really bleeding, but was oozing white. I briefly considered leaving it, but they are only on day 12 and the cracking was severe (it was crushed on both sides ... was a very thin shell). In the interest of the rest of the hatch, I decided it was best to pull it. I waited several minutes (because I could not stand to watch the poor baby die) and opened it. I wish I had not done that. It was naked, but looked very much like a chick (albeit an alien chick). It was a perfectly forming little chick

I am sorry about your cracked egg. I hope everything turns out okay with it. I would think that if it is not oozing it probably has a pretty good chance.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

Oh I am so sorry rizq!! When I cracked my egg this morning I screamed so loud my DH came running in thinking I had cut off a finger or something LOL

I have an update and it is good news though!!!

I just candled the cracked egg and it is still moving!!!!!! I hope it makes it! YAYYY I have hope now!!

 

[rizq]

I am glad your chicky is still moving! I will definitely keep my fingers crossed for you

and hope to see an update when it is time that the egg hatched out a healthy chick!

At least with mine it is one of my own eggs, but we are really wanting to increase our flock. Guess that group needs some oyster shell!

I will just tell myself it was a rooster (poor baby chicky).

 

[pbjmaker]

This happened to me Friday also. The kids and I were taking eggs out of the turner at school and one of the kids bumped the incubator lid and it fell on all the eggs. It cracked one about as big as yours - but at the aircell end. This poor little 10 year old just sat down and started crying - even though it wasn't really his fault (he was beeing jostled by other kids.)
I was honest with the kids and told them it severly reduced the chances for that egg to hatch. I won't know until Tuesday.

It's killing me.

 

[countrybum]

I have hatched a number of cracked eggs. I do not use wax, polish or glue I simply tape a piece of snadwich bag over the crack and make sure it is taped down on all sides.

 

[wanda047]

Chicks-n-Horses,
I know that feeling... that one where you think you are going to throw up! I did the same thing about a week ago. I even posted about it here.

While candling, I dropped the egg on the countertop... cracking the egg on the side of the pointy-end. It was quite a large crack, that ran in several directions. The over-whelming nausea hit... the thought that I might have caused one of my baby chicks to die was almost more than I could handle. I was in tears as my hubby tried to comfort me, reassuring me it was probably okay.

I did nothing... just placed it back in the bator and decided to let a higher power take over. There was no seepage from the egg, so I assumed it was only the external egg shell that was injured. This was my last day to candle... they were due to hatch in three days!

I placed it in a special place in the bator where I could keep an eye on it. Imagine how surprised I was when it hatched! It was the third to hatch out of 20. However.... the story does not end there.

Though the chick was perfectly formed and appeared as normal as the rest of my fluffly little butts... I found it dead about an hour after I placed it in the brooder. It had completely dried and was up moving around the brooder the last time I checked on it. When I found it though some time later, it was laying directly under the heat lamp, on its back, dead. I have no clue what happened, or why. I'll never know.

I'm sorry I lost the one.. but so thankful for the 19 that survived all my goof-ups during incubation, temps spikes/drops, and problems keeping humidity up! Good luck with your hatch. I'll say a little prayer for your egg/chick.