Ok, I need some help

[fuzziecreatures]

I don't use an incubator, I normally use a broody hen. I have a mixed breed bantam hen who I started out with 9 eggs under her 3 weeks ago, 5 mixed breed and 4 black copper marans eggs. All 5 mixed breed eggs hatched a day or 2 early, 1 bcm egg didn't develop past week 1, 1 bcm egg died late term, 1 hatched last night but died. My hen left the other egg, I just got home from work and the egg was cold. I thought for sure it would be dead, I tried to give it back to her... she just walked away from it. So I candled the egg. Saw no movement at the air cell end at all, cracked open the air cell end a little bit, the chick moved!!!! I tried to give it to her again, she started pecking the egg and made the chick bleed a little!
What do I do now? She walked away from it again and the other chicks were kicking it all around?

 

[fuzziecreatures]

Progress is....
Chick is wrapped up in a warm wet washcloth in an open ziplock bag on a heating pad with a digital thermometer between the bag and heating pad. Keeping temp around 99-101. I did chip away more shell so I could see where it's beak is, it needed a quarter turn and had already broken the membrane with the beak. I wet the membrane a little better with warm h2o and a qtip, I can see it breathing now vs just moving around. Gonna be a long night I think. If it hatches before I go to bed, do you think it would be ok to put under mom tonight after dark and the lights are out? Last chick hatched early yesterday am

 

[tastybabies]

You should have success putting it under her at night with the others.

 

[fuzziecreatures]

Never mind, broody momma knew what she was doing. She died a little while ago, I was hoping she was just resting but she isn't breathing or moving at all. Tore a little bit of membrane across a small vessel, no bleeding. Tore across a larger vessel that should have bled, no bleeding.

I'm so bummed, I've been waiting for a year for these eggs.

 

[tastybabies]

Aww no im sorry your little ones didnt make it. Did you buy the eggs? or were these the first laid this year?

 

[fuzziecreatures]

I bought them, I guess I'll try again next broody hen. It's getting kinda late in the year for me though. I have another hen that I already had given eggs to, hopefully another bantam will go broody. They went broody left and right last year it was ridiculous! This year, out of the 4 bantam hens 3 have gone broody and 1 would not stay where I put her. She would only sit in the nest box and all the other hens kept picking on her and stepping on her eggs.

 

[tastybabies]

Hens are weird like that. Thats crazy you had so many go broody! I only have one that ever goes broody and all the other hens end up laying eggs beside her to sit on. None of the other will sit.