Aircell problem duck egg

[Tashabasha32]

Hi has any1 had success hatching a duck egg with an aircell this bad? It literally covers more than half the egg all down 1 side and bottom xxIt's been like this from the start a was gona jus bin it but ended up putting it in incubator to see, Day 23 and moving and growing, seen the egg rolling n moving yday aswell, iv never had a cell this bad, also it came with a crack on the shell so I taped that up as membranes all intact, don't wana give up on it any advice xx

 

[nchls school]

I have not seen one this bad. Be prepared to do an assisted hatch. I had a couple shipped call duck eggs this spring that were badly saddled. Both required assistance to hatch. Both are now healthy normal ducks.

 

[Tashabasha32]

Any tips on how u done ur assisted hatch? Iv done an assisted hatch on a chicken but I felt I cuda done better thankfully chick survived tho xx

 

[nchls school]

Of my ducklings, one externally pipped but was unable to turn in the egg so could not zip. The other internally pipped, but because of how it was positioned could not reach the shell to externally pip or zip.

I raise a lot of poultry of different species and we, my wife and I, do quite a few assisted hatches; especially with shipped eggs.

 

[Tashabasha32]

Of my ducklings, one externally pipped but was unable to turn in the egg so could not zip. The other internally pipped, but because of how it was positioned could not reach the shell to externally pip or zip.

I raise a lot of poultry of different species and we, my wife and I, do quite a few assisted hatches; especially with shipped eggs.

C that wat similar to the 1 I helped it internally pipped and cudnt reach shell after ages I helped,so will I wait till internally pip then make a safety hole then leave a day then if no external will I assist or as sn as internally pipped will I assist, really want this lil 1 to survive we nicknamed it cracker Jack coz cracked shell He's so strong the way his egg rolls around xx

 

[nchls school]

Hit the wrong button.

My wife is better at assisted hatches as she is much more nimble fingered than me.

We usually wait for a chick/duckling to hatch normally then we watch the other eggs carefully. When some have hatched we know that it is close to hatch time for all the ducklings.

To start, my wife removes a small piece of shell so that the membrane is clearly visibly. If the membrane is milky-white with veins full of blood it is too soon to assist.

The eggs are checked hourly. When the membrane becomes transluscent in appearance and bloodless, or nearly so, Kimmi removes the shell on the rounded end where the pip mark is. Then she removes the underlying membrane and pushes the membrane edges back over the remaining shell as much as possible to keep the membrane from drying to the duckling.

Only the shell and membrane on the rounded end is removed much the same as a hatching duckling would do. Of course, should the duckling pip on the wrong end, then it's the pointed end that is removed.

We never remove a chick/duckling from the egg. It is important that the baby push their way out. If a duckling is removed from the shell before all the yolk sack is absorbed the duckling's chances at survival are slim.

 

[nchls school]

With the duckling that could not externally pip, we made a small hole (pip) in the egg when all the other eggs had pipped and some time had passed.

 

[Tashabasha32]

With the duckling that could not externally pip, we made a small hole (pip) in the egg when all the other eggs had pipped and some time had passed.

Okay thank u u, this 1 has a crack that I covered at the start the shell fell away its about a cm big n the white membrane is showing but as iv said its covered jus now n its in the aircell but so iv got a start but to work with if need to assist, xx

 

[nchls school]

There is a shell membrane (what you saw when the shell fell away) and another membrane between the duckling and the air cell. It is this membrane that I wrote about in my, above, posts.

 

[Tashabasha32]

There is a shell membrane (what you saw when the shell fell away) and another membrane between the duckling and the air cell. It is this membrane that I wrote about in my, above, posts.

Okay thank u xx