Shell cracked but not membrane??

[GalaxyChicken]

I hope it all works out for you! It varies by the chicken, of course, but I had a hen welcome a chick two full days after being done with her nest. I hope your little one integrates well with the others!

The only other time I've let a broody hen do her work, I had to take one of her chicks away when they were a couple days old because it was injured, so I took 3 of her babies so the injured one had a friend (She had like 12 so she didn't miss them trust me lol) and about a week later, I let her and her 9 babies out of their crate, and put the 3 babies near her, she didn't even notice they weren't hers! But I've heard so many horror stories about the mother hen eating the chick that I'm nervous

 

[MROO]

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That has got to be one of the cutest pics I've seen in a long time!

 

[GalaxyChicken]

 

[C Siena]

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WOW, Adorable. Alive due to you checking on the best way to save her, even late at night. Responsible chicken mother.

 

[GalaxyChicken]

 

[GalaxyChicken]

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That is mama with her four babies the baby that I had to introduce to her is under her in this picture

 

[WingItRanch]

That is mama with her four babies the baby that I had to introduce to her is under her in this picture

Gotta love a happy ending! Thanks for the update!

 

[LaFleche]

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What a cute little guy!

 

[s1a2b3]

I've had a broody hen on four eggs for 20 days, and 3 hatched, but when I moved her out of her nesting box into her brooder with her babies, I saw her fourth egg in the very back of the nesting box, alot of the shell looks like it was peeled off/fell off?? It was cold to the touch and at first I thought it was dead, but I could feel the chick squirming through the membrane, and it yelled at me, lol. I put it in a incubator wrapped in a warm damp cloth. But where do I go from there?? How do I help it? Do I help it? I've hatched HUNDREDS maybe even a thousand eggs out of the incubator (first time letting a broody hen do it) and I've never had something like this. How in the world could this of happened? I have pictures but I'm not sure how to upload them

If it has been more than 24 hours, you need to just get the chick out using a needle carefully or maybe tweezers, that keep it in the incubator until it is moving around on its own. You can then put it back with its mom.