What to do next time...chick out of shell.

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

I needed advice on what to do next time. I was gone all day and when I came home I went to check one of my broody hens (eggs should hatch on 7/2). She has 9 eggs under here and one was missing part of the shell....at least half of it. I have no idea what happened. The sac was still intack but I thought for sure the chick had died, so I opened it up and it was still alive. I started running back to the house to put it into the incubator, but it died before I could get there. I could tell there was a chick in the sac by the shape. SHould I have left it alone and put in the incubator, or was it a lost cause.

 

[JScatt69]

I've only been doing this a few years now, I mean raising chickens etc.. And one thing I've learned is that when a hen is setting on eggs never interfere no mater what, what happens..happens. Every broody hen I've had in the last two years has had a 99-100% hatch rate.

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

I should have just left it! I really thought it was dead. I thought that maybe she got up and then another hen layed an eggs and crushed that egg, but there were not any other eggs in the box.

 

[Orange Ribbon]

Well, sometimes things happen and you just don't know what to do. You did the best thing you could think of at the time. I know that doesn't answer your question though. I just hope you are not beating yourself up over it.

 

[Chickengal505]

Next time, Dont open it. Take a *DAMP* *WARM* paper towel and place it over the missing part of the shell. Take and place in the bator. Don't beat yourself up

it happens