please help Chick is Over Due, will this egg hatch?

[tjo804]

This egg is on day 25, it was moving at lock down but I have not seen movement does it still look viable to anyone?

 

[oregonkat]

Not an expert, but I would say no! It looks to me like the embryo has started to break down in there. I'll tag some more knowledgeable people:
@WVduckchick, @azygous, @KikisGirls, @aart what do you guys think?

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

At day 25 and seeing no movement I would say the egg is no longer viable. From the vid it looks like the chick has started to decay.

 

[WVduckchick]

Agreed, sorry, its a goner.

 

[tjo804]

That's what I was afraid of
DH said let nature take its course, but I am sure he doesn't know next would be explosion nothing like fireworks

Thank you for your time I really appreciate it

 

[tjo804]

I had put on my hope/ denial cap because it looked like the embryo was getting bigger. I guess that's the decay?

 

[tjo804]

@oregonkat i wanted to let you know that you were right.
Good call

I opened the egg, everything looked correct from what I read air sack and membranes were all in tact. Veins over yolk the embryo looked ok at first fully feathered,but the head was flat, I assume decay. I do think what happened was the umbilical cord wrapped one foot one leg and foot was bigger than the other and I mucked around with salt water to untangle the smaller foot. I assume that's why it stopped moving next time less candling more praying.

I just wanted to thank you again for sharing your knowledge with me.

 

[oregonkat]

It's always such a bummer when you lose a developing chick. It has happened to me more times than I care to remember. I agree that messing with the eggs as little as possible is usually best, but it is so hard not to candle and see what's going on in those precious eggs. We've all been in that position. Did you succeed in hatching out more chicks with this incubation?

 

[tjo804]

No it was 100% failure rate

I set 5 more when that one went into lock down, but I have been successful in keeping my hands to myself

I love watching them grow. I would really like to candle my daughter she is due in Sept.

 

[oregonkat]

Congratulations on your up coming baby!! I think you can count your ultrasound as a
'candling' sort of .
Sorry to hear about your failed hatch however. Do you have an idea of what went wrong?