Platinumsky
Hatching
- May 7, 2024
- 8
- 6
- 6
I have a few goose eggs incubating and they started pipping yesterday morning. One of them opened up their shell by about a half inch by one inch "window" then stopped, another one pipped a little bit and another hatched already. There's a fourth egg with movement inside it but no external pipping yet. My main concern is the "windowed" egg, the little guy hasn't moved at all since he opened his window yesterday morning but we can see him breathing and "gulping" periodically. My local vet said to "help" by opening up the top of the shell for it and I noticed that the membrane around the little guy was very dry despite a constant 70% humidity during lockdown and hatching. I was worried the membrane might be too dry and "hard" for him to move around and finish hatching so I called the vet back who said to just let it die, I googled a bunch and found this forum. I followed the advice in an "assisted hatching" thread about putting clean warm coconut oil on the membrane to keep it hydrated, but some of the membrane, especially a thin thread of it pressed against the beak is still really tough, stiff and leathery. Does anyone have any advice on what to do? I don't want to keep stumbling along and mess things up worse.
Also, the hatched gosling has some pretty matted dry feathers looking like they're caked in fluid from the egg, it's taking longer than any of our ducklings ever did to dry and fluff up, is that something I should be worried about and do something to fix?
Also, the hatched gosling has some pretty matted dry feathers looking like they're caked in fluid from the egg, it's taking longer than any of our ducklings ever did to dry and fluff up, is that something I should be worried about and do something to fix?