Thank you.
Woke up this morning to 4.5 ducks and 2 turkey poults hatched. Still no progress with the goose egg. Today is day 31.
But, the half duck that was out made my morning! I heard muffled peeping coming from the incubator, a kind I had never heard before. I went to check the window and found an egg, zipped around the narrow end (the wrong end), with a wet butt and 2 wings sticking out and flapping, trying to push its way backward out of a too small hole. If I had been thinking straight, I would have gone and grabbed the camera. But because of the frantic peeping and flapping, I just quickly rushed in to free the backward tyke, who came out just fine.
My dad once asked me whether any babies are hatched breech. I chuckled at him a little and said, "No. Because they peck out with the beaks, they always come out head-first." Well, now I'd like to change my answer.
Pleased your little duckling is ok.
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