Help Me Please!!

[Mom2Cool]

well I used a q-tip to moisten it when I have been helping them to zip but doing so you have to be careful because you don't want water near it's beak because you'll drowned it. I have helped them hatch but I prefer not to & it often does not turn out well. I just helped a couple of ducklings in hatching because they tend to need it (or this breed does & I'd been forwarned) but even then the others I just let them go & tried not to look. I'll check in on hatching eggs & then I go & busy myself with other things. so if I see 1 has pipped I know it & I know the progress etc. but I try to give it/them hours before I would intervien. When it comes to handling them during hatching I try to practice less is more. I would watch whomever the egg is that you've been helping & I'd give it hours before I would do any more. I would moisten the membrane & then I'd set him down & let him try to work his own way out. If after say 8 hours or so there's no improvememt then I would intervien & help it some more etc. You want all of the yoke obsorbed. & I would use a spritzer bottle & I might even use that as my way of mositening the one that you've started helping.