Help! Duck egg

[FloridaMomma]

Hello everyone, I’m new here.

About 20 days ago found some duck eggs at my work someone left in a dumpster. I candled them and they were alive. I immediately went online and bought an incubator and brought 6 of the eggs home. After days on a heating pad on low I moved them to the incubator and after watching only one survived. Yesterday I noticed an internal pip. It was above the line into the air sac but no peeping. I watched it all night and day but a bit ago I went to check on it and it was very far up into the air sac and still hadn’t externally pipped so I made a small hole hoping to get it some air. I opened just enough to see inside and noticed baby has a clear membrane still very tight around it. It’s still moving and all and very high above the air sac line and air sac seems to be getting bigger much faster now. I’m gonna attach some pictures. Is he okay like this or is it shrink wrapped? I see a tiny tiny vein in the clear sac around the baby but it doesn’t seem wet inside at all. I posted some pictures of the level of the air sac and how far above it he is. I also immediately put a damp paper towel over the egg hole and am keeping humidity a bit higher at the moment. Still no peeps from the guy.

 

[nuthatched]

Oh wow.
It can take a whole day or more from pip the hatch. Are they all close to hatching?

 

[FloridaMomma]

Oh wow.
It can take a whole day or more from pip the hatch. Are they all close to hatching?

I myself have had them for 20 days and when I got them it seemed to be from pictures I found online they were about 12 to 18 days old. Everything I read said there’s enough air for 24 hours give or take an hour or 2 so I was getting worried cause he slowed down a lot.
This guy has taken up all of the shell for about 10 days now. I haven’t been able to see anything but blackness in the fluid side of the egg. I’m honestly thinking he’s overdue in hatch time terms so the fluid is decreasing but because he was in the cold for who knows how long until I found the eggs that he’s behind on hatching.

Oh wow.
It can take a whole day or more from pip the hatch. Are they all close to hatching?

 

[FloridaMomma]

I myself have had them for 20 days and when I got them it seemed to be from pictures I found online they were about 12 to 18 days old. Everything I read said there’s enough air for 24 hours give or take an hour or 2 so I was getting worried cause he slowed down a lot.
This guy has taken up all of the shell for about 10 days now. I haven’t been able to see anything but blackness in the fluid side of the egg. I’m honestly thinking he’s overdue in hatch time terms so the fluid is decreasing but because he was in the cold for who knows how long until I found the eggs that he’s behind on hatching.

I myself have had them for 20 days and when I got them it seemed to be from pictures I found online they were about 12 to 18 days old. Everything I read said there’s enough air for 24 hours give or take an hour or 2 so I was getting worried cause he slowed down a lot.
This guy has taken up all of the shell for about 10 days now. I haven’t been able to see anything but blackness in the fluid side of the egg. I’m honestly thinking he’s overdue in hatch time terms so the fluid is decreasing but because he was in the cold for who knows how long until I found the eggs that he’s behind on hatching.

Or maybe the cold did something to make him too weak to hatch correctly I’m not sure that’s all just guessing

 

[nuthatched]

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[New duck mommy 2021]

In your picture to the right of the hole you made is that a bruise I see ?
If so are you sure you saw an internal pip ?
I would wet the egg with the cloth. But you can keep a damp cloth in the bator itself to bring up the humidity
You need it around 65-70 %
But most bator readings are not accurate

 

[FloridaMomma]

In your picture to the right of the hole you made is that a bruise I see ?
If so are you sure you saw an internal pip ?
I would wet the egg with the cloth. But you can keep a damp cloth in the bator itself to bring up the humidity
You need it around 65-70 %
But most bator readings are not accurate

Not a bruise. It’s yellowing that’s where the internal pip started yesterday afternoon he was pushing up there and I figured some of the goo got into and discolored the egg. Right where I made the hole is where it was tapping it’s bill but no where near Hard enough to actually do anything to open the egg. The only reason i could even tell it was the bill tapping is cause with my flashlight I could see the color. He wasn’t even tapping it hard enough to hear it with my ear on the egg. Really seemed like he was tired. If he really is stuck inside that clear membrane that’s probably why he’s too tired.

 

[FloridaMomma]

In your picture to the right of the hole you made is that a bruise I see ?
If so are you sure you saw an internal pip ?
I would wet the egg with the cloth. But you can keep a damp cloth in the bator itself to bring up the humidity
You need it around 65-70 %
But most bator readings are not accurate

Yes I’m sure he was pipped and in the pictures I posted you can see he’s very far into the air pocket. This is how he’s been for about 26 hours now. Yesterday around noon i could see just the tip of its bill pushing into the air pocket

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Not a bruise. It’s yellowing that’s where the internal pip started yesterday afternoon he was pushing up there and I figured some of the goo got into and discolored the egg. Right where I made the hole is where it was tapping it’s bill but no where near Hard enough to actually do anything to open the egg. The only reason i could even tell it was the bill tapping is cause with my flashlight I could see the color. He wasn’t even tapping it hard enough to hear it with my ear on the egg. Really seemed like he was tired. If he really is stuck inside that clear membrane that’s probably why he’s too tired.

Okay now I see that’s his beak there
They do move further into the air cell as they hatch
That’s normal
He could be in the wrong position to zip and giving him a safety hole was the correct thing to do as they will run out of air
If he has made no progress in 24 hours from when you made his safety hole and that was 24 hours after internal pip ( total of 48 hours from first knowing he was internal )
Then you can start to help assist
I usually take shell off in the air cell area not a bunch all at once
But ebiught you can get in to see that way I can wet the membrane and look for veins. I use coconut oil on a q tip to wet it but to keep it moist I use Vaseline as it last longer
If you see veins you leave it and try again in 3 hours
I like to go 3 hours in between helping
If baby is yawning and chewing he is absorbing and not ready
Don’t rush him out of the egg as it’s very easy to panic take them out to early abc then they pass away. I know from first hand experience
Broke my heart then I found help on here and successfully assisted the rest
Patients is the biggest thing you can have.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

if the membrane gets to dry take a paint brush dip it in room temp water and wet the membrane it is way easier for it to hatch with a moist membrane.