Update: I took off the cap of the shell and put Vaseline on the membrane (taking care to avoid the beak) to keep it moist. Woke up this morning to a happy duckling!
Just checked on it again. When I tap on the incubator and whistle, it responds vigorously with peeps and movement. The inner membrane appears to be against the duckling, separated from the interior of the shell. Wondering if I should remove the egg cap and moisten the inner membrane and let the...
Thank you, that was helpful. I’m thinking I’ll wait and see what happens. Just hoping it will be able to maneuver to hatch on its own, I’m not sure why the other one didn’t make it out even after zipping almost fully.
Hello,
I’ve been incubating welsh harlequin duck eggs and 6 hatched last night/this morning. I got home from work today to find one duckling that had zipped pretty much all the way but was dead in the shell, never made it out. One egg is pipped, and the egg of concern had a hole- slightly more...
