Abandoned duck egg. Need help asap

[lilnuggets]

Okay so I posted earlier how we have a broody duck that had 3 eggs to hatch 1st hatched fine on its own then died a few hours later (pretty sure it was pecked to death) this was on Saturday. Yesterday (Sunday) egg #2 hatched and mama duck has just straight abandoned her baby/egg. #2 was cold and barley moving brought it in and put it in the brooder it is doing much better today. Egg #3 was ice cold this morning when. I checked on it so I let it be and decided I would candle it later. So now I have candled it and by some miracle the baby duck inside is still moving. What do I do?!? I don't have and incubator and there is not away to get one tonight. I brought it in and put it in a Tupperware (no lid) under the heat lamp in the brooder with duck #2 But I have no clue what I'm doing! It has not started to pip but is due to hatch anytime based on the other 2 hatching already. Any help or advice is welcome. Thanks in advance! Would love to have #3 survive

 

[ChickNanny13]

Someone should be able to point you in a direction....

@WVduckchick @oldhenlikesdogs @KikisGirls @Ol Grey Mare
Thank you all in advance, not my expertise

 

[sylviethecochin]

This spring, I put a chicken egg in a glass bowl with a heat lamp positioned over it and a towel over the top (held in place by clothespins), one end draped down into a bowl of water, to keep the towel damp and the inside of the bowl high-humidity. I had a thermometer taped to the side of the glass bowl. It worked, there was no shrink-wrapping, but I did have to assist his hatch a day later because of how weak he was from the cold.

(Backstory: His mum had grabbed an extra egg, and he was two days behind his fellows. She got off the nest after they hatched, but built a second nest on the ground for her peeps that evening. So I stuck the unhatched egg back under her. In the morning, I came out, expecting to see a chick, and found a cold egg on the ground, peeping at his mother. She was calling for the egg, as though she expected it to magically roll over and tuck itself back under her. I swear, broodiness kills a hen's brain.)

 

[ChickNanny13]

@sylviethecochin, now I add you to my list of members & "expertise". Glad you have your location, helps when trying to figure out time zones

 

[lilnuggets]

This spring, I put a chicken egg in a glass bowl with a heat lamp positioned over it and a towel over the top (held in place by clothespins), one end draped down into a bowl of water, to keep the towel damp and the inside of the bowl high-humidity. I had a thermometer taped to the side of the glass bowl. It worked, there was no shrink-wrapping, but I did have to assist his hatch a day later because of how weak he was from the cold.

(Backstory: His mum had grabbed an extra egg, and he was two days behind his fellows. She got off the nest after they hatched, but built a second nest on the ground for her peeps that evening. So I stuck the unhatched egg back under her. In the morning, I came out, expecting to see a chick, and found a cold egg on the ground, peeping at his mother. She was calling for the egg, as though she expected it to magically roll over and tuck itself back under her. I swear, broodiness kills a hen's brain.)

Thanks I will add a damp towel for humidity.

 

[sylviethecochin]

@sylviethechochin, now I add you to my list of members & "expertise". Glad you have your location, helps when trying to figure out time zones

I would hardly call myself an expert at anything. I'm a farm kid who loves to read and hatch chicks; I've only picked up a few things along the way. Call @Pyxis. S(?)he's far more experienced than I am.

 

[ChickNanny13]

You are an "expert" cause you know as much as I do by reading Did forget to include @Pyxis ... she/he is good Love this site

 

[WVduckchick]

If @lilnuggets can give us an update, I’ll do what I can to help

Before we get to details, please keep in mind that ducks can take a long time to hatch. They can be quick, but most of the time they are much slower than chickens. Sometimes 2 full days. So please don’t rush this duckling out of the shell.

 

[lilnuggets]

If @lilnuggets can give us an update, I’ll do what I can to help

Before we get to details, please keep in mind that ducks can take a long time to hatch. They can be quick, but most of the time they are much slower than chickens. Sometimes 2 full days. So please don’t rush this duckling out of the shell.

Update: so far everything looks good I just candled the egg and there is movement the air pocket appears to be bigger but still has not started to pip yet. So my set up is really rough for a homemade incubator is a Tupperware with paper towels on the bottom a small dish if water on the inside and cling wrap rubber banded around the top with a few holes poked in the cling wrap. This contraption is a rubber made tub in my bathroom that I'm using as a brooder / incubator. I don't have the heat lamp bulb in it was way too hot I have a regular light bulb and the tempature inside the incubator is 91

 

[WVduckchick]

Update: so far everything looks good I just candled the egg and there is movement the air pocket appears to be bigger but still has not started to pip yet. So my set up is really rough for a homemade incubator is a Tupperware with paper towels on the bottom a small dish if water on the inside and cling wrap rubber banded around the top with a few holes poked in the cling wrap. This contraption is a rubber made tub in my bathroom that I'm using as a brooder / incubator. I don't have the heat lamp bulb in it was way too hot I have a regular light bulb and the tempature inside the incubator is 91 View attachment 1525122

91 is not warm enough. It needs to be at least 96, preferably 98-100, but less than 104. Can you maybe position the heat lamp nearby so it will get a little warmer inside there?

How’s the other duckling doing?