how to keep a little bird egg alive?

Question

i found a little bird egg in to park not sure id theres a chick inside can you also tell me how to find out if there is one
and how do you keep it alive till it hatches

Answer 1

Here's the easiest way to see if there is a chance of hatching a wild bird egg.

Get a cup of warm (lukewarm) water. Put the egg in the water. If it sinks or bubbles, throw it away. If it floats, give it a few seconds and roll it a little. Watch the egg. If there is a bird in the egg, the egg will roll erratically on it's own as the bird tries to find a new position. If it always rolls back to the same position or fails to move at all, it's not alive or the baby bird failed to develope.

It's best if you don't try to hatch it. Most wild bird babies are impossible to hand rear, and it just ends badly. They need regurgitated bugs or seeds every two hours, and it just doesn't work.

Answer 2

Not sure how long it was from the time it came to be out of its nest to the time you noticed and stopped to pick it up... if it was cool when you found it, it might be to late.

You can still "candle" your egg though.Eggs are candled to determine the condition of the air cell, yolk, and white. Candling detects bloody whites, blood spots, or meat spots, and enables observation of germ development. Candling is done in a darkened room with the egg held before a light. The light penetrates the egg and makes it possible to observe the inside of the egg.

The candler should be set on a box or table class="smaller" at a convenient height (about 38 to 44 inches from the floor), so the light will not shine directly into the eyes of the operator. In candling, the egg is held in a slanting position with the large end against the hole in the candler. The egg is grasped by the small end and, while held between the thumb and tips of the first two fingers, is turned quickly to the right or left. This moves the contents of the egg and throws the yolk nearer the shell. Because of the color of their shells, brown eggs are more difficult to candle than white eggs... and if you don't have a candler, a projector or high beam flashlight will work also.

To do a reasonable job, an extensive knowledge of candling is not necessary, particularly if the eggs are all relatively fresh. One should be able to distinguish a fresh egg from a stale egg and detect such abnormalities as bloody whites, blood spots, meat spots, and cracked shells. In a fresh egg, the air space is plainly visible and moves freely. The white is thin and clear. In a stale egg, the air space is plainly visible and moves freely. The white is thin.

And to incubate... wow. That's a time consumer if you don't have an incubater. You need to control the temperature, the humidity, ventilation, turning... I wish you luck.

I hope this helps

Answer 3

You need to make an incubator with a box and a light bulb and you have to turn the egg every couple of hours. SInce you don't know how long the egg has been without heat I doubt it will survive. To check for a chick hold a small flashlight up to it to see if you can see any sold material inside the egg.

Answer 4

The egg could have have been given kicked out of the nest, or the wind blew the egg out of the nest. there's a point the place the mummy leaves the nest for some million-2 days. So the egg stops turning out to be. yet while she sits on it back, that's starts off turning out to be back. That egg sounds like a robin egg. those eggs take approximately 12-14 days to hatch. If it hatches, please call an area wild rehab midsection they'll understand what to do with the chook, as a results of fact that's unlawful to shield those birds.

Answer 5

Just Wandering has the point. Once it's been chilled, any further development is unlikely. Plus, it was probably kicked out of the nest for a reason. True , that reason may be it was booted out by a nest stealing species, but more likely because it was not viable.
Sorry, but even if it was viable to start with, with out proper and continuous incubation, that changes fast. Not a good idea to try to fool "Mother Nature", usually a waste of time, and it is you who are fooled.
Regardless, I commend your desire to save the little egg. It shows your heart is in the right place.

Answer 6

It may already be dead. I would check with a local feed store or something. Maybe take a heating pad, wrap the egg in 2-3 towels and then the heating pad (so you don't fry it). Sometimes they rent out incubators, you may want to check! Remember, it is better to keep it at room temp than to fry it!!!! Use your judgement.

If you do get the incubator they should have the settings on the side, etc.

Good Luck!

Answer 7

i can try to help you a little, to see in side the egg you will need a box /shoe box with a light in it and a hole big enought to set the egg on with falling in to the box then it got to be in a dark room so you can seeif theres anything in the egg . if there is there too things you do do read on the internet about haching eggs get and incubator and try to set it and save whats in the egg .

Answer 8

there are two ways to check if the egg is fertile one is to put it onto a lit torch and if it is then a dark shape will be seen,,the other is to gently float the egg in a glass of water,,if it floats its Not fertile,if it turns out that it is then wrap it in cotton wool and put it in the airing cupboard make sure you turn the egg every day,,

Answer 9

It's most likely not alive. Eggs have to be incubated to form and grow. Chances are that it's not even fertile.

Answer 10

if the egg has got cold or feel cold to the touch it will never hatch to hatch it it need a incubator to hatch