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  1. C

    Baby chick has a dark second layer of membrane?

    Never seen this before can anyone help me?
  2. R

    Brown gooey blob, help!

    Hi all, I’m hatching some ducklings. I’m relatively new to ducks and so just wondered if I can get some advice. We had 6 eggs, only 2 hatched. Think the others haven’t formed properly unfortunately. They’re on day 32. One has made it out this morning after 24 hours post external pip. The other...
  3. A

    1yr old hen laying spiral shaped membrane and soft shelled eggs

    I have a flock of approximately 1yr old layers. They’ve been good producers and are on a 16% layer along with calcium supplement available. About 4 months ago one started laying a soft shell under the roosting bar about once a week and about once a month there is a strange spiral shaped...
  4. muddypaw66

    Orpington Duck was eggbound, but still not back to normal

    Hey there, I hope it's okay to post about a duck on here. I am a lifelong "animal person" (they find me everywhere I go!) and have extensive experience with furbabies, but not as much with feathered ones. I have an Orpington female duck that adopted me, along with a Rouen and a Mallard. (The...
  5. R

    Chicken eye excessive tears exposed lacrimal membrane

    Please help.... I don't know why one of my 8month old pullet's one eye is excessively lacrimating with bubbling tears and also a white membrane is covering the medial aspect.... What should i do? But the eye(pupil) itself seems clear not cloudy. Please help.... i don't want her to get blind...
  6. vickers6504

    Guinea on nest of eggs most not hatching

    Guinea is on the nest and stays on the nest almost all the time. 3 of the eggs hatched between 2-3 days ago and are doing fine. In the nest 1 pipped and started getting out and another just pipped a bit. Those 2 died. I think the membrane got to dry. I have candled some that are remaining and...
  7. FeatheredFriends&Horses2

    DELETED - The Chemical Composition of Chicken Eggs - DELETED

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  8. OfWolvesAndHen

    Dry membrane? Help! UPDATED

    UPDATE: The little one I was worried about is only growing more vigorous, and talkative. He/she won't seem to stop chirping or rocking around! The membrane seems to have gotten much whiter as well. :D I've opened the incubator a couple times today, each only for a few seconds at a time---once...
  9. A

    Shipped eggs- loose membrane

    Hello! First time hatching shipped eggs. Have hatched many of my own successfully. They were treated pretty rough, packed well, but really tossed around. 2 arrived broken and all the rest (24) either had fully detached, partly detached, or saddled air cells. I’m very excited to have 21 going...
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    • aircell chicken eggs detached air cell hatching eggs incubabtion incubation membrane saddled eggs shipped shipped eggs
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    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  10. H

    Assisted hatch on 24 hrs externally pipped chick, are these veins?

    Hi, This is our first hatch and our first external pipper has not made progress. At hour 24 I peeled away some of the shell. It appears that its foot is above his head and that I will need to help get the membrane off. I cannot tell if there are still veins that need to be absorbed and do not...
  11. J

    Stuck chick??

    Update: I had to intervene last night and help (coconut oil worked amazingly!) I softened the membrane and “cracked” off the shell. Put her back in incubator an within 10 mins she broke out of the membrane. This morning she’s almost fully dry and seems healthy! Thank you! Help. I don’t know if...
  12. C

    ADVICE PLEASE - ZIPPING BUT NO PROGRESS 12 HOURS

    Hi all, I have indian runner ducks. Its day 29. Some pipped yesterday and 2 began zipping 12 hours ago but not made much progress. One of the ducklings is constantly chirping away, wobbling and keeps pushing at the shell but nothing is coming away. The other starts and stops. Should they be at a...
  13. M

    Pipped wrong end, no membrane hole.Help!

    Hi, So this is my first time hatching duck eggs. I noticed one of the eggs had a hole in this morning it could have happened last night while I was sleeping but it seems to be in the wrong end. My air cells were a bit weird *being shipped even though I set them for over 24hrs) so I am not sure...
    • Mrs A
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    • breathing duck eggs ducks hatching hatching help help wanted malposition membrane pipped egg
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Ducks
  14. WolfLady

    Keeping membrane from drying?

    Hi! Since my current hatch seems to struggle a bit and that I may have to assist more than usual, what can I use to keep membrane from drying? I often see coconut oil, neosporin and vaseline being recommended, but I sadly don't have any of those and I live in the middle of nowhere without a car...
  15. G

    New laying hen, has produced one soft shelled egg and one shellless yolk less egg already this morning

    Good morning 🌟 My first bantam hen started laying this week (Tuesday), she has delivered one egg everyday since. Today I woke to find she already laid (v early) and there was quite a lot of diahhrea in the nesting box, and a very soft shelled egg, she may have punctured the egg as there was...
  16. verdefraggle15

    Nervous Wreck!

    So all of my chickys are hatching or pipping (except for four eggs) and two of them pipped and broke out some but nothing more. The first one was like this since yesterday and the second one has been like this all day and I’m terrified! The membranes are turning brown and I’m so scared! Should I...
  17. A

    SHOULD I HELP?

    This chick pipped at about 2:45am and has made little progress since then. I know it can take a while my only concern is that the membrane is yellowing. I have read conflicting answers on whether you should help if its been pipped for 12 hours without zipping or if the membrane is becoming too...
  18. ChickChic00

    Chicken Egg Membrane

    Any way to make egg membrane softer?? Our chicken egg membrane is so hard we could drop them and they still wouldn't bust open. I have chicken eggs for hatching and 1 has fully developed but has died. It had a super hard membrane. Just like to know how to soften the membrane. Any help is...
  19. E

    Is my egg stuck in the membrane that is dried out? Should I intervene!??

    I've been hatching an egg for a while now and it pipped very recently. I only saw the pip this morning and noticed that the inner membrane was yellow, which meant that it was dried out. I looked at other posts and tried to give it moisture, so it now has a wet paper towel around it, but I can...
  20. teignch1cken

    Soft eggshells and very tough membranes?

    i’m looking for suggestions and advice! Out of our five chickens, only one of them is consistently laying eggs with very soft shells. The top of the eggs are particularly soft with lots of little bumps on the point. Is there anything besides lack of calcium and too much salt intake that can...
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