Used a donor egg shell to repair broken egg

[grnidone]

My broody hen did NOT like the new nesting box I moved her to and refused to sit on her eggs. So I moved her back to the old box.

Came to old nest to get eggs and saw dog trying to eat one of the eggs. As I looked at the egg, the end was completely off and to my horror, the chick moved.

The chick was still wrapped on the inside goop and was still wet, so I fired up the incubator and used an egg shell from and egg slightly larger to put the broken egg into.

I pasted the entire thing together with candle wax.

No idea if this will work. Any thoughts?

 

[SweetieChicken234]

My broody hen did NOT like the new nesting box I moved her to and refused to sit on her eggs. So I moved her back to the old box.

Came to old nest to get eggs and saw dog trying to eat one of the eggs. As I looked at the egg, the end was completely off and to my horror, the chick moved.

The chick was still wrapped on the inside goop and was still wet, so I fired up the incubator and used an egg shell from and egg slightly larger to put the broken egg into.

I pasted the entire thing together with candle wax.

No idea if this will work. Any thoughts?

This is incredible and I hope it works for you. As someone with a chick that came from a badly broken egg shell...this story is interesting to me. I want to keep tabs on this story. How many days was this egg?

This is just such a great idea I will remember it for next time. I used clear packing tape and candle wax. All I could do was pray.

 

[skeeeter]

Hope it turns out well.

 

[Themellowyellows]

Good luck let us know!

 

[grnidone]

Ok. I didn’t have a lot of hope because there was a lot of drainage. But a day later, I did a cold water test and felt a kick!! I think next time I need to add some donor egg white to the baby as well! But so far, so good!!

 

[SweetieChicken234]

Ok. I didn’t have a lot of hope because there was a lot of drainage. But a day later, I did a cold water test and felt a kick!! I think next time I need to add some donor egg white to the baby as well! But so far, so good!!

So happy for the update!! I hope it keeps up going well.

 

[Kiki]

Ok. I didn’t have a lot of hope because there was a lot of drainage. But a day later, I did a cold water test and felt a kick!! I think next time I need to add some donor egg white to the baby as well! But so far, so good!!

Can you share a picture of what the egg looks like now?
I am having a hard time understand without a picture.

 

[Slothinc]

Did this baby make it to hatch?

 

[Altairsky]

Dog saliva is full of deadly bacteria, I doubt the chick survived the infection.

 

[grnidone]

This baby did not make it to hatch, BUT, it did make it for about a week in the incubator (I verified it was moving) so I would call this a success. Mostly.

Next time, I would absolutely also use the donor egg white as well as the shell itself. I think it just ran out of padding, and I had a hard time keeping the egg moist.

Definitely worth another try.

There was a school project with Japanese school children of them hatching eggs with no shell at all. They put the entire egg onto a plastic sheet over a jar to make a concave surface for the yolk and white to be in.

I have to think that maybe even doing something similar with the remainder of the egg shell and a new white to keep the chick moist might work as well.