- Jun 10, 2012
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Hi everyone, I just joined here today to help clear my head a bit, this morning I had a duck egg that had been trying to pip for a few days, lots of movement and tapping but nothing going on. it's 4 days behind the others and Peggy duck is not interested in the slightest. This story might sound muddled but it's just me trying to piece it together. I tried to help the little guy (an yes I know I shouldn't have I really really do so please don't tell me 
) anyway, there was a little crack so I gently opened it up tiny bits at a time, ducking seemed to be trying to get through but couldn't break the membrane so I dampened it a little and made a tiny hole, then came the blood, he was chirping a lot in there so I took a bit more shell just leaving the membrane for him. He sounded like he was trying to struggle through so I opened it a little bit more. Needless to say after all this he lived for around 30 mins, my gorgeous little ducky. I feel so awful for doing it and i can't get it off my mind, Iv trusted mother nature so much in many other cases and I don't know why I couldn't this time. Iv kept chickens for around 5 years and ducks for about 3 now but never tried to hatch eggs. We only did this as we rescued a wild Mallard duckling (Peggy, names from the broken leg that she came with) and she won't broody on us in her first spring as an adult, especially when percy came to stay (another rescue). Anyway, she has 3 gorgeous babies with her at the minute, who are out of eggs from our larger ducks so they'll be bigger than her in a couple of weeks! I'm sorry for rambling on, I just needed to get my stupidity and complete selfishness off my chest. I feel like suck a bad mum iv fixed broken legs, bad egg peritonitis, mycoplasma and all sorts and I mess up on something I should have known
) anyway, there was a little crack so I gently opened it up tiny bits at a time, ducking seemed to be trying to get through but couldn't break the membrane so I dampened it a little and made a tiny hole, then came the blood, he was chirping a lot in there so I took a bit more shell just leaving the membrane for him. He sounded like he was trying to struggle through so I opened it a little bit more. Needless to say after all this he lived for around 30 mins, my gorgeous little ducky. I feel so awful for doing it and i can't get it off my mind, Iv trusted mother nature so much in many other cases and I don't know why I couldn't this time. Iv kept chickens for around 5 years and ducks for about 3 now but never tried to hatch eggs. We only did this as we rescued a wild Mallard duckling (Peggy, names from the broken leg that she came with) and she won't broody on us in her first spring as an adult, especially when percy came to stay (another rescue). Anyway, she has 3 gorgeous babies with her at the minute, who are out of eggs from our larger ducks so they'll be bigger than her in a couple of weeks! I'm sorry for rambling on, I just needed to get my stupidity and complete selfishness off my chest. I feel like suck a bad mum iv fixed broken legs, bad egg peritonitis, mycoplasma and all sorts and I mess up on something I should have known
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yes it is, I'm just going to pretend her other eggs don't exist for a week n see of anything comes I think. I thinking trying to fix everything is a huge vice of mine! Most of the time touch wood my efforts come through though. Wasn't meant to be 
