Abandoned duck egg. Need help asap

[lilnuggets]

To clearify I noticed the egg was pipped as of 6:40 am AZ time

 

[WVduckchick]

Good luck everyone. We have a storm coming, I gotta go take care of chicks and ducks.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Why do you all not trust my hatching process? I have done it about 300 times and with great success ...
I can help too..

And you are helping. .
There is nothing wrong with more than one opinion.
No-one can be 100 percent sure from looking at pictures.
I do not think this duckling will die if she decides to assist at this point as long as she doesn't go ripping it out of the shell or anything. But it seems to be progressing so that's why I give the opinion I did.
Please don't take things so personal.

 

[lilnuggets]

To clearify I noticed the egg was pipped as of 6:40 am AZ time

It was not pipped last night when I went to sleep around 11pm so sometime between last night at 11pm and this morning at 6:40 am is when it pipped

 

[chickens really]

And you are helping. .
There is nothing wrong with more than one opinion.
No-one can be 100 percent sure from looking at pictures.
I do not think this duckling will die if she decides to assist at this point as long as she doesn't go ripping it out of the shell or anything. But it seems to be progressing so that's why I give the opinion I did.
Please don't take things so personal.

My opinion is to try to assist its zip...

 

[PirateGirl]

@lilnuggets maybe you can get a photo that shows the membrane and the color it is?

 

[chickens really]

Scary with so much information being tossed at the person trying to hatch they definitely are not getting a comfortable feeling today...
I'm sorry am wish you well I definitely hope the hatch goes well.

 

[Pyxis]

To clearify I noticed the egg was pipped as of 6:40 am AZ time

So possibly not even twelve hours ago yet, and definitely not 24 hours ago? Sometimes they kind of punch around and enlarge the pip without actually being trying to zip.

It can breathe and it hasn't been trying to hatch for more than 15 hours max, so for now you're safe to not assist if you don't feel comfortable and see if it will hatch on its own. It won't die at this point if you don't assist right away.

You could open the end of the air cell without hurting it, if you wanted to, but you would also have to be ready to apply coconut oil or bacitracin to the membrane if it's not ready to hatch and then monitor it to reapply as needed. Ducks are really slow hatchers and some take up to 48 hours from the time of the external pip to actually zip and hatch.

 

[Kiki]

To clearify I noticed the egg was pipped as of 6:40 am AZ time

It is fine. Just wait.

 

[Kiki]

Go back to making green dollars and check on it on an hour or two.