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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    Ah bless , I am going to do that as soon as he moves to the brooder tomorrow. I won’t have him for more than a few days , as I am travelling and have a full on job . But I have lined up a ‘duck rescue home’ where he will be looked after And have many more ducks to grow up with . I’ll be sad...
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    He is a rescued egg from my garden . His mom laid a couple of eggs last month by the little pond we have , but never came back for it. I had two on the incubator , the other one wasn’t fertile . X
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    He couldn’t have hatched on his own . I think humidity was too low during incubation, the membrane was all leathery .. I made an executive call to help him at the 40 hour from pip mark . I am glad I did . There was no unabsorbed yolk , no red blood vessels , the little fella was ready to come...
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    Thank you , I have a better view now . Here’s a video of the baby duck 40 hours since 1st external pip . I can see a sticky yellow fluid below the membranes
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    Haha will do, thank you ever so much both for your time, patience and kindness ,, I'll keep updated on the progress :)
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    I can see the beak making chewing motions and a yawn too ! Which means I'll leave it alone for now :) .. I agree so much less stressful to watch them hatch naturally , I wasn't expecting to assist the first hatch lol.. At least its alive and seems to be ok , which is most important
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    I couldn’t see one or I failed to identify one . The moment I peeled out the outer membrane near the pip , a beak came gushing out , so dark inside , I am a bit scared to inspect further . If nothing develops for another 10 hrs am I ok to intervene?
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    I have put it back in as I heard the duckling cracking the shell while I was holding it I think that membrane was/is restrictive to its hatching
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    So I went ahead and quickly took the duck out of the incubator and I had to peel out the brown outer membrane that was on the external pip , the moment I did that , I saw a little beak coming out, and peeping .
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    Thanks , let me try that, so its ok not take it out from the incubator quickly ? inspect it and put the egg back with the pip on top?
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    Right OK, so air cell was pretty big but its a small egg . And you are right the baby did take longer than 24 hours to pip externally from internal , and I was quite worried about that. But it really has made very little/ no progress since the 1st external pip ( which was 37 hrs ago) and the 2nd...
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    Thank you , it’s been roughly 37 hours since the 1st pip which was around 2am on the 27th . I dearly hope it doesn’t come to it ,fingers crossed . So the dark thing vibrating in the video is the membrane and it’s moving because the duckling is breathing through it ?
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    Mallard Egg no sign of external pip

    No progress since 10 am yesterday. That was the 2nd external pip . The video is from this morning
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