Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[casportpony]

Is that what it looked like when you opened it or did you moisten the membrane?

-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

Looks like she maybe able to finish the job herself baring she doesn't get shrink wrapped.

 

[AnimalQuackers]

I am no guru but It looks like they didn't get enough moisture to soften the shell when I incubated my ducks I would mist them with warm water maybe try that hopes all goes well

Well, the shells are VERY hard - I can tell you that. In fact, our chicken eggs are, too. We have a neighbor who is 86 years old and was a farmer all his life - including raising chickens. We take him eggs, and he told us last week that these eggs have the yellowest yolks and the hardest shells of any eggs he has ever seen. Now, that's CHICKEN eggs, but the ducks and the chickens eat the same pellets...

Sutherland, do you mist ALL the eggs, or only the eggs in lockdown (I have two incubators going)?

 

[AnimalQuackers]

Is that what it looked like when you opened it or did you moisten the membrane?

-Kathy

I moistened it... (Bummer, huh?)

 

[casportpony]

I moistened it... (Bummer, huh?)

No, that's what I would have done and once you did, it filled the empty part of the shell, right?

-Kathy

 

[AnimalQuackers]

No, that's what I would have done and once you did, it filled the empty part of the shell, right?

-Kathy

I actually took as much of the shell OFF as I could without interfering with any of the membrane - so I removed all the empty space in the egg. I hope that makes sense! That is what I understood Lori to tell me to do with Peepers, and that is what I did with her, too.

Then, I wet her membrane until it turned "clear" from the white it was (it looked like tissue paper) with warm water on a Q-tip. I have pipettes. Do you think it would be better to actually drip warm water on her?

 

[casportpony]

I actually took as much of the shell OFF as I could without interfering with any of the membrane - so I removed all the empty space in the egg. I hope that makes sense! That is what I understood Lori to tell me to do with Peepers, and that is what I did with her, too.

Then, I wet her membrane until it turned "clear" from the white it was (it looked like tissue paper) with warm water on a Q-tip. I have pipettes. Do you think it would be better to actually drip warm water on her?

I usually just drip the water on, but it looks like you got it wet enough with the q-tip.

-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sure can see lots of red veins in there.

 

[AnimalQuackers]

Sure can see lots of red veins in there.

Yes - LOTS more than I saw with #4....if I understood what Lori said correctly, that means she's not ready to come out, right? She has to "absorb" them, right?

I have no idea what I would do without all of you! I am so grateful to you all!

 

[AnimalQuackers]

I usually just drip the water on, but it looks like you got it wet enough with the q-tip.

-Kathy

Can she become "sticky" at this stage? I don't know when in development that happens. I was afraid I killed #4 by getting her TOO wet!