Smashed egg - LIVE chick - NEED HELP ASAP

[Ursuline Chick]

Spray just before you leave for the play and spray as soon as you get back from the play.
Congrats on your daughter's play.

 

[Mvan42]

Ok, there is alot of good advice here. I have seen someone here put tape over a crack to help hold things together. Not sure if that was said or not. Also. Can u candle both and get a short video and post. That may help determine about how much longer (estimated guess) .. the chick in the white going by size has to be close to day 14ish...

 

[TJAnonymous]

Ok, there is alot of good advice here. I have seen someone here put tape over a crack to help hold things together. Not sure if that was said or not. Also. Can u candle both and get a short video and post. That may help determine about how much longer (estimated guess) .. the chick in the white going by size has to be close to day 14ish...

Yes, I will candle them as soon as I get back from the play

 

[Eggscaping]

I've got the humidity at 63% currently... Should I go higher?

Any guesses on how often I should apply the coconut oil? I was going to assess it every 2 hours or so?


The predicament I'm in now is that my daughter has a play tonight. She will be very upset if I miss it... So I'm going to have to gamble on whether the egg will be fine in the incubator for a few hours. I did put some coconut oil on it with an eyedropper so hopefully that will suffice for a bit

It's a hard call...I'd know better how to advise if there was any idea how far along the eggs are. At this point though, a higher humidity would be to keep the membrane from drying out and shrinking around the chick. That's also what the coconut oil is for - it softens the membrane. You can see it "darkening" as the oil self-spreads along the membrane. Don't feel bad about going to your little girl's play - you have your own chick to support. Sometimes things happen and little birds go off to fly in other skies...or at least that's what I like to think. We just had a terrible hatch with only 3 out of 16 shipped eggs making it and I feel pain when that happens, but .... life is uncertain. Do the best you can and keep us posted! New Boots and I are keeping our fingers crossed for you!

 

[Eggscaping]

At least a third of the eggshell surface is horribly cracked

I would use a brush and not spray though. The chick is peeping, so it's breathing the air outside the shell...I wouldn't spray. Just tiny dabs of the oil from a very small brush.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I would use a brush and not spray though. The chick is peeping, so it's breathing the air outside the shell...I wouldn't spray. Just tiny dabs of the oil from a very small brush.

I have another chick in a brooder next to the table where I have the incubator. It was abandoned by its mother yesterday. I think the chirping you hear is from that chick.

I'm at the play now... Just waiting for it to start. I'll provide an update and candle both eggs when I get back. The eyedropper worked really well for applying the coconut oil so I will probably continue with that method. I haven't had a chance to look for the Bacitracin yet either...

 

[SilverBirds]

Praying for your little one!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Any guesses on how often I should apply the coconut oil? I was going to assess it every 2 hours or so?

At least a third of the eggshell surface is horribly cracked

@CluckNDoodle may be able to provide some very helpful tips.

I would take care opening the bator often since you will lose heat and humidity each time. The oil or bacitracin should keep the membrane moist for a few hours. I like the art paint brush idea!
At this point, I think the less fiddling the better. No sure if their should be an attempt to mend, tape, etc. the eggshell of just leave it be and see what happens.

Humidity, you don't want it too high or it will affect chicks. 63% sounds pretty good. I would monitor for a while and see how fast the membranes dry out before adjusting it higher.
Let everything sort of just settle.
I'm sure it's very distressing, but I think you are doing all you can.

How many more eggs are under your broody and is she isolated/in a separate pen so she's not being disrupted?
Any idea on the hatch date at all?

 

[TJAnonymous]

OK, back home from the play.

I candled the eggs. The white egg shows no movement. I candled the egg on its side for obvious reasons. You can see the chick settled to the lower half of the egg. The top half looks like a big pool of blood. I'm certain the chick bled to death inside the egg. Based upon the approximate size of the chick and the amount of yolk visible through the hole, I think the chick was somewhere in the latter half of the 2nd week.

I also candled the brown egg. It's a Marans egg so incredibly difficult to see through and photograph... While I can't ascertain the size of the chicken, I am certain there is movement in the brown egg so I know that baby is still alive.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Here's the best pictures I can get of the white egg