So cute! That's pretty cool that the EE survived and hatched.
This is my little crew of misfits.The magpie call duckling hatched out blind, you can see the little cataract/cloudy part in her eye in the pic, her other eye is the same. She's finding food and water easy enough, and perfectly happy and healthy so I think I'm going to keep her as a pet. Haven't vent sexed her yet but QJ found an interesting study which said all ducklings with congenital blindness are female, so I'm going with that lol. The bibbed duckling was just pokey, and took an extra 3 days to decide to hatch.
The little EE was really odd. The eggs were under my broody. She only hatched 1 of 5. I candled them, listened to them the day after the other hatched and figured they quit. I let her stay on them a few extra days, then when she got up I gave up. I tossed the other eggs, then when I was cleaning the nest box noticed I'd missed this one since it was buried in the straw. I went to toss it too, figured the others were dead so it was too. Put it to my ear for a second first, and thought I heard something. So I brought it inside, and opened it a little bit (this was 4 days after the last hatched). The chick was still under the membrane, not even internal pipped but it started peeping? I figured it had no chance, no chick I've ever helped has lived and this one hadn't even internal pipped that I could tell. I saw it's beak against the membrane, and pushed the membrane down over it to pip it. It wasn't moving, but breathing and peeping a little so I kept going. There was no fluid in the egg at all, yolk was absorbed and everything. Chick looked awful, all stiff and not really moving so I set it in the incubator to let it die in peace. Next morning this little fluffball was running around the incubator, and came right up and bit me.It "hatched" monday, and is thriving today so I think it's going to be ok.
