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Update: Two healthy babies! The one that had some of its yolk not yet absorbed seems to be doing well. Strong, and walking around the brooder, eating, drinking, pooping! Most of its yolk seems to have disappeared and what’s left looks dry and unproblematic. I think having almost a full 24 hours...

Update: the third chick hatched out with some assistance. It was thrashing and pushing against the membrane, which I kept adding to Neosporin to and monitoring until there were no veins visible. Then, I basically freed its head and the duckling pushed out the rest of the way on its own...

The first duckling didn't make it. It never was able to get out of the egg. This morning, I checked the coop again, and there was a second dead duckling, halfway out of its egg, with the rubbery membrane still attached. I now have a third duckling working its way from the egg, and it's looking...

I applied a little coconut oil on the parts of the membrane that were dry, and put it back in with its mother. I plan to check again in an hour, and if nothing has changed, try to open it up a bit more. I didn't see any obvious blood veins with the coconut oil application, but I also tried to...

There is an opening by its beak, but it’s yellow and dry. The rest of the exposed membrane is along an entire side of the egg. Also drying up.

It looks like this. Chick is inside lightly peeping, but parts of the membrane are drying up.

Today is day 28 for my broody khaki campbells (there are 2 hens setting), and last night, two of the eggs had pipped. This morning, however, one of the eggs looks like it is almost completely missing the hard outer shell, but the duckling is still in the egg's membrane and doesn't look to have...