External pip wrong end

[bandocommando]

Hello!

I posted a two days ago with a few questions about lockdown. I’m on day 26/27 (depending on if you use a day 0 or not) and my biggest egg has externally popped!! Unfortunately it’s on the wrong side. I don’t know when it happened... at what point should I be worried about assisting? I’ll attach pictures - the membrane is still in tact so I’m just worried about air supply.

I think many of the eggs have internally pipped more than 24 hours ago... is it time for safety holes?? I’m afraid of meddling and messing up if they were fine on their own but I’m also afraid of sitting on my hands while they’re potentially suffocating! I’m a very anxious person if you couldn’t tell!

thanks in advance for your help

 

[HuffleClaw]

There are chicken eggs ? Duck eggs ? Something else ???

Leave it be for a while, as long as the membrane isn’t dried out.

 

[bandocommando]

Duck eggs. I’m waiting and it seems like the little one is making progress - moving against the membrane. I’ll try to be patient

 

[HuffleClaw]

Oh okay then just leave it be for now.

 

[bandocommando]

Just added water quickly and managed to get a better angle - it looks like the membrane might be wrapped around him? It’s kind of dry looking and yellow. Advice?

I could try to take a picture but I don’t want to take him out and interrupt and I KNOW I’m falling prey to being too involved/messing with the incubator but I’m just so worried!

 

[bandocommando]

Just for more info... taken through the window of the incubator. Am I freaking out for no reason??

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

I hatched my first duck eggs on Easter. So my first hand experience is minimal. But I did do lots of reading and been hatching chickens for a couple of years.

It is perfectly normal for ducklings to take up to 48 hours from external pip to zip. It's really important you respect this especially since you don't know exactly when it pipped. From the video it seems like it's still absorbing it's yolk. That's the yawning, chewing, chattering motion they do. I understand being concerned about the discoloration. Some of mine got like that too. Not sure why. Maybe they hit a vessel when pipping but they still managed to hatch just fine.

Here's a timeline on my duck eggs. I had internal pips on Wednesday, external pips on Friday pm/Saturday, all 7 hatched on Sunday.

 

[bandocommando]

That’s very comforting thank you for being patient with me!

I will be patient with them and sit on my hands