first I'd like to say THANK YOU SO MUCH this has been such a helpful forum to me for YEARS even though I've never made an account before.
now to the problem! I have one lonely little canada goose egg that has been giving me all sorts of problems. I'll type out the story later, because if this guy makes it it will be a little miracle baby, but right now it's got yet another hurdle to get over. We're on day 26. Two days ago internal pipping occurred. Early, but this egg's been a little ahead of schedule and I wondered if it had some time to be incubated by mom before I got a hold of it. Lots of peeping and clicking, pretty clear movement and hard strikes against the egg. Fast forward to today, still no external pip, and following some of the threads on here I decided to make a small air hole to make sure it's getting air and take a peek. ONLY THERE'S BEEN NO INTERNAL PIP. so here's my dilemma!
There's a lot of very clear movement of the beak up in the air space next to and up against the egg (with the membrane still around it!) and it's doing a lot of opening and closing it's beak in very small movements very quickly. I'm really stuck, so what do you guys think? I'm afraid for some reason the membrane was too thick and I should help, but on the other hand, this is only day 26, despite it's quick schedule, so maybe I should see what happens!
The membrane looks kind of thick and white in places, but doesn't look to shrink wrapped to the little guy. There are a couple veins visible, but no major ones. From what I can tell (it is a very small hole) the baby doesn't seem to be folded wrong or anything. I don't mind assist hatching, I've done it successfully with chicks several times before, but I've never quite been in this situation before and would love some opinions!
(I'll type up the story to post under this, this really is a lucky little goose, I just wanted to get this out there
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now to the problem! I have one lonely little canada goose egg that has been giving me all sorts of problems. I'll type out the story later, because if this guy makes it it will be a little miracle baby, but right now it's got yet another hurdle to get over. We're on day 26. Two days ago internal pipping occurred. Early, but this egg's been a little ahead of schedule and I wondered if it had some time to be incubated by mom before I got a hold of it. Lots of peeping and clicking, pretty clear movement and hard strikes against the egg. Fast forward to today, still no external pip, and following some of the threads on here I decided to make a small air hole to make sure it's getting air and take a peek. ONLY THERE'S BEEN NO INTERNAL PIP. so here's my dilemma!
There's a lot of very clear movement of the beak up in the air space next to and up against the egg (with the membrane still around it!) and it's doing a lot of opening and closing it's beak in very small movements very quickly. I'm really stuck, so what do you guys think? I'm afraid for some reason the membrane was too thick and I should help, but on the other hand, this is only day 26, despite it's quick schedule, so maybe I should see what happens!
The membrane looks kind of thick and white in places, but doesn't look to shrink wrapped to the little guy. There are a couple veins visible, but no major ones. From what I can tell (it is a very small hole) the baby doesn't seem to be folded wrong or anything. I don't mind assist hatching, I've done it successfully with chicks several times before, but I've never quite been in this situation before and would love some opinions!
(I'll type up the story to post under this, this really is a lucky little goose, I just wanted to get this out there
