Hen crushed egg

[gimmie birdies]

Hi, not looking for help. Just posting what happened and what I did. Hen was sitting on 4 eggs. One was hatching, and one had just a pip. The hen crushed one egg, but not killing it. I put the hatched chick and the crushed egg in an incubator. I did not help the chick out of egg since the inner lining still had veins.

hen still has 2 eggs.

 

[Debbie292d]

We had exactly that same thing happen a few years ago. The crushed egg though had been left behind by the mother hen and her clutch. It was cold when I found it, but moving so I fired up the incubator and put him in it. It took him three days to hatch! We called him Lazarus.

This was him about a couple months later. His mom wouldn't let him cuddle up and it was a cold winter night, so we brought him in.

 

[SweetieChicken234]

Hi, not looking for help. Just posting what happened and what I did. Hen was sitting on 4 eggs. One was hatching, and one had just a pip. The hen crushed one egg, but not killing it. I put the hatched chick and the crushed egg in an incubator. I did not help the chick out of egg since the inner lining still had veins. View attachment 3875923hen still has 2 eggs.

Wow that's even worse than my crushed egg situation. I hope it makes it. Mine was crushed on day 14 under the broody and still made it. What a miracle.

 

[gimmie birdies]

The crushed egg sat in her inner lining till she absorbed veins. Then I pealed off white outer layer, she still had a strong vein connecting to her butt, so I left it connected and placed her in a paper bag, with top cut off, so it could dry, in the bag like a playpen, so it could dry without dragging and pulling out innereds. This am she was yellow dry and fluffy. The connected cord was dry, and I clipped it off. Hen crushed one more pipped egg, not as bad. It's in the incubator. The last egg not shown is under a different broody hen now.

 

[SweetieChicken234]

The crushed egg sat in her inner lining till she absorbed veins. Then I pealed off white outer layer, she still had a strong vein connecting to her butt, so I left it connected and placed her in a paper bag, with top cut off, so it could dry, in the bag like a playpen, so it could dry without dragging and pulling out innereds. This am she was yellow dry and fluffy. The connected cord was dry, and I clipped it off. Hen crushed one more pipped egg, not as bad. It's in the incubator. The last egg not shown is under a different broody hen now.View attachment 3876602

Wonderful news!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

I had a duck egg that was crushed on day 8 by a broody. I put him in a series of lockdown incubators with a lot of humidity and it made it.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Here's the last crushed egg, hatched.

the 4th egg was a dud.
The other 2 chicks are in a brooder with 1 chick that hatched on Wed and one that is a week old.