Aww i am sorry it sounds like shes shrink wrapped, i would take the egg round home, damp some warm water on the membrane and carefully peal away, if you see some blood stop and damp it with wet kitchen roll till it stops and put it back under mum for an hour till that vein has dried up. If you...
Hey there, yes the egg should be fine. Ive hatched my marans egg that was cracked and my last duck egg was really badly cracked and it survived to the hatching stage but pipped wrong end. I would hatch it. Now you can head off to work lol...:D
Hey hun, i would leave some water and food for her as she will eat when she feels like it, if you think she is losing too much weight take her off the nest and take her to the food, you could even sprinkle some food in her nest that she will peck at. My broody would get off her nest for about...
My ducklings hatched 3 days early too! Must be something in the air lol.. What type are they? Ive just hatched indian runners and call ducks, there so funny we love them..:D
I dont what she is but i bet she turns out to be the best looking! I have a cross marans that was supposed to be a Wheaton but shes crossed with a cuckoo marans and shes so pretty! Hows the guinea eggs? :)
This is my cracked duck egg! I put tape on it too just incase anything else seeped through. The baby developed to hatch day but sadly pipped wrong end otherwise ok. I would give it a go.
Hey hun thats great news, all you need to do is sort out your temp and your there, you dont need to go out and buy another incubater.. Keep us posted hun.
Hey hun it sounds like you have done great. Just one thing is your temp 34.7 and 38.7 is too low and too high but dont worry we arnt born with a PHD in chicken incubating! my temp is 37.6 the whole way through, then again if you have a still air it might be supposed to be high so hope someone...
Ive got 14 in total no more to hatch. 9 runners and 5 calls. Did have 10 runners but sadley my husband had to put the poorly one to sleep.. there just sooooo messy. did you get my message about the puppy pads there great...
Dont worry about the large air cell thats normal, i marked my air sells from day 10 and by day 19 when i put them on lackdown they were massive, 14 out of 18 and the last 3 only died due to pipping wrong end.. Whats your temp and humidity now hun?
You could always have a couple ducklings to live with your chickens ;).. You have done really well. I will take a photo of my 3 chicks i hatched with the duck eggs, there 2 polish frizzles and a lavender Silkie.. These are off my own chickens.:D