Cracked Turkey egg day before hatch date

[Pearlescent]

I was candling for internal pips in a Turkey egg on day 27, then the egg slipped out of my hand and fell 4 inches onto my desk. At first I thought it was ok and then I felt these cracks on the pointy end, membrane is fine, but the chick hadn’t pipped internally yet.
It’s still showing movement and the cracks are very small.
There are also cracks by the air cell, but I am not worried about those as much.

Also, this is less needed info, but how fast do they need to eat after hatch? I don’t need an answer to this, but it’d be helpful.

 

[Molpet]

Wax
https://www.littlefarmonthecorner.c... however, use candle wax,you've got will work.

 

[Molpet]

Oh they can go a few days before eating. But I have read broilers get bigger if fed when hatching.
Not much on this and turkey

 

[R2elk]

I was candling for internal pips in a Turkey egg on day 27, then the egg slipped out of my hand and fell 4 inches onto my desk. At first I thought it was ok and then I felt these cracks on the pointy end, membrane is fine, but the chick hadn’t pipped internally yet.
It’s still showing movement and the cracks are very small.
There are also cracks by the air cell, but I am not worried about those as much.

Also, this is less needed info, but how fast do they need to eat after hatch? I don’t need an answer to this, but it’d be helpful.

That close to hatch date I would put it back in and leave it and the rest of them alone.

They can go as much as 72 hours after hatching without eating. I leave them in the incubator to dry out. It is usually the day after hatching that I move them to the brooder. I use sand as bedding and sprinkle turkey starter on the sand. Mine are usually eating within 5 minutes of being put in the brooder. I dip their beaks in the warm water as I put them in the brooder.

It can take them several days to learn that the stuff in the feeder is the same feed they have been eating off of the sand.

 

[R2elk]

But I have read broilers get bigger if fed when hatching.

CornishX will also go to sleep with their heads in the feeder. Not a problem with turkeys.