Found an egg on my dock

[can't get enough chicken]

Giddy is an understatement! I'll keep waiting! Thank you for all of your advice!

 

[DogAndCat36]

Giddy is an understatement! I'll keep waiting! Thank you for all of your advice!

No problem.

 

[DogAndCat36]

Also, to tell you the truth, I'm also giddy. I am incubating a bunch of eggs too, my first batch. How do I know about incubation you may ask? BYC helped me. In the first week of incubation, I stayed up till midnight every single night learning about egg care and now I feel wise. Well anyway, today is the 12th day and I was candling one of the eggs and what I saw shocked me. The little noddley embryo that was still and such and all of a sudden it was moving, it started to shake like crazy and these two little things attached to it (most likely legs) started to twitch. It scared the heck out of me, my heart was pounding! Be warned! Nobody told me this and it can be scary!

 

[DogAndCat36]

So how is the eggo?

 

[can't get enough chicken]

Not seeing an air cell though?

 

[FluffyFeathers97]

Egrets are protected by federal law. Possession of eggs, feathers or birds is illegal in the us. Raising of the chick is also illegal. Contact your local wildlife rehabber and turn it over. You can receive a hefty fine or jail time if caught.

 

[can't get enough chicken]

I have reached out to my local wildlife shelter but they are not answering because its the weekend I think.

 

[DogAndCat36]

OMG!! OMG OMG OMG! Not seeing an air cell though?View attachment 2076308

The air cell might take some time to be visible?
So now, since it is alive you just saved a life! (If it hatches ) In my book, you are a hero, in the fed.'s book, you are messing with their chickies and they what to be the hero. Though the fed.'s have a reason and they know how to care for it. For example egrets eat alot of fish, where will you get that at such a geat quantiy. You know what they say, "It's for the best to set them free", "If you love them let them go", and "It might hurt them and you, but in the end it will be better". I'm sorry that you can't keep the baby. Just remember, you saved it and it can now fly free and have it's own babies to care for. (If it hatches ) Maybe the wildlife shelter will alow you to volinter, if you want to, so you could care for the egret without feds. fineing you? I mean, the egret still needs a parent figure.

Also, don't take this as me being a ranting angry person, it is tricky to express emotions through words and even using the emotitcons can make it feel fake. So anyway, I have observed what happens when people wait for the wildlife helpers to come and sometimes it is ok to intervine, like what you did. I have observed a horrible thing that happened to a baby doe once and in the lapse of the wildlife helpers going there, the doe got even more injured that it did not make it. I know, don't help a rabid animal, don't touch a sick animal, but this was a healthy doe and from what I learned later on, just picking it up could of saved its life, but since we weren't profesionals at picking up does it died. (if you want to know the story, then I could tell you it with a PM or just saying on this tread, though it is not a fun story to hear) So ya, what I'm saying is that you are a good person.

 

[FluffyFeathers97]

The air cell might take some time to be visible?
So now, since it is alive you just saved a life! (If it hatches ) In my book, you are a hero, in the fed.'s book, you are messing with their chickies and they what to be the hero. Though the fed.'s have a reason and they know how to care for it. For example egrets eat alot of fish, where will you get that at such a geat quantiy. You know what they say, "It's for the best to set them free", "If you love them let them go", and "It might hurt them and you, but in the end it will be better". I'm sorry that you can't keep the baby. Just remember, you saved it and it can now fly free and have it's own babies to care for. (If it hatches ) Maybe the wildlife shelter will alow you to volinter, if you want to, so you could care for the egret without feds. fineing you? I mean, the egret still needs a parent figure.

Also, don't take this as me being a ranting angry person, it is tricky to express emotions through words and even using the emotitcons can make it feel fake. So anyway, I have observed what happens when people wait for the wildlife helpers to come and sometimes it is ok to intervine, like what you did. I have observed a horrible thing that happened to a baby doe once and in the lapse of the wildlife helpers going there, the doe got even more injured that it did not make it. I know, don't help a rabid animal, don't touch a sick animal, but this was a healthy doe and from what I learned later on, just picking it up could of saved its life, but since we weren't profesionals at picking up does it died. (if you want to know the story, then I could tell you it with a PM or just saying on this tread, though it is not a fun story to hear) So ya, what I'm saying is that you are a good person.

It isn't because the feds want to be the hero. I'm a wildlife rehabilitator. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people try to 'do the right thing' and improperly care for an animal resulting in improper growth or something that makes them unreleasable into the wild. The reason the Migratory Bird Act exists is to prevent whole populations being decimated. It's in place so the balance of the ecosystem isn't thrown wildly out of wack. You may think it's just one bird, but it may go on to spawn many others or bring down invasive species etc. I know it isn't a malicious act in everyone's eyes but it's really better to let the professionals do it and let the animal live as natural a life as it can.

 

[MGG]

This is awesome so far. It is illegal to have it. Try to find someone to take it asap. Do not turn the egg though, that's the same incubator I have and it has a built in turner. It is definitely alive in there. Don't worry about the air cell, it will come. Can you get a calibrated thermometer hydrometer reader?