When should I put a safety hole in a call duck egg?

[Cheems]

so far for another update, all 4 eggs seem to be doing good. I think the one has feet over the head, but maybe all of them. They all seem to be doing good and I have just been keeping them moist

 

[Painted Calls]

so far for another update, all 4 eggs seem to be doing good. I think the one has feet over the head, but maybe all of them. They all seem to be doing good and I have just been keeping them moist

Great job!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I have 4 eggs in lockdown right now, but I have other eggs in a different incubator that are not in lockdown. I do agree about the part going too quickly, I will try to slow down.

So once you have removed most of the air cell from the egg,
Your goal is to just watch for those veins to receed and peel back that membrane a tiny bit at a time mostly working over the head area as long as it's safe to do so. Safe meaning no blood filled veins.
If they are yawning and chewing they are still absorbing yolk.
So don't get too carried away creating an escape route where they can pop out before they're ready. Just try to keep the membrane from sticking to the feathers by keeping it moist and keep that head and eye area free from membrane covering as soon as possible.
If the membrane does not get stuck to the duckling it is still possible for them to turn and sort of zip out on their own. If the majority of the air cell is already off they can just kind of flop themselves out.
Be thinking about finding a small tupperware bowl of some sort or short glass dish that you can put a Kleenex or clean paper towel in the bottom of it in case you have one come out with a little bit of open or exposed navel. You'll want to place it in a little bowl of some kind and leave it in the incubator to keep it from flopping around knocking other eggs around, getting stuck on its back, or exposing that open navel to any bacteria that could be in the incubator off of the other eggs.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Mare stop reading my posts before I have a chance to edit and fix everything.

 

[Painted Calls]

Safe meaning no blood filled veins.

Here is a good example of safe membrane to clip away. Notice how clear the membrane and veins are on the right side? That is safe to remove.

 

[Painted Calls]

Mare stop reading my posts before I have a chance to edit and fix everything.

I'm fast like Ninja

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I'm fast like Ninja

You are!
You would think my proofreading skills would be better by now. Nope. I always have to go back and edit. Lol.
And then I'm always looking for the edit button when I send a text message and I'm like oh.. well

 

[Painted Calls]

You are!
You would think my proofreading skills would be better by now. Nope. I always have to go back and edit. Lol.
And then I'm always looking for the edit button when I send a text message and I'm like oh.. well

Same.

 

[Cheems]

So once you have removed most of the air cell from the egg,
Your goal is to just watch for those veins to receed and peel back that membrane a tiny bit at a time mostly working over the head area as long as it's safe to do so. Safe meaning no blood filled veins.
If they are yawning and chewing they are still absorbing yolk.
So don't get too carried away creating an escape route where they can pop out before they're ready. Just try to keep the membrane from sticking to the feathers by keeping it moist and keep that head and eye area free from membrane covering as soon as possible.
If the membrane does not get stuck to the duckling it is still possible for them to turn and sort of zip out on their own. If the majority of the air cell is already off they can just kind of flop themselves out.
Be thinking about finding a small tupperware bowl of some sort or short glass dish that you can put a Kleenex or clean paper towel in the bottom of it in case you have one come out with a little bit of open or exposed navel. You'll want to place it in a little bowl of some kind and leave it in the incubator to keep it from flopping around knocking other eggs around, getting stuck on its back, or exposing that open navel to any bacteria that could be in the incubator off of the other eggs.

Ok, thank you. I didn't know about the navel thing, I will prepare for that just in case. All the ducklings seem to be doing good, although I think they need longer before I start doing anything else besides keeping it moist, but I really appreciate it so I have that info fresh in my mind. So, do you think. Also, they are making kinda a shivering type motion with their beak. I am pretty certain they aren't actually cold because I have multiple different things testing humidity and temperature. But they are making a shivering motion with their beak opening and closing their beak. From what I can see, I am pretty sure thats just the yawning motion, but could it be anything else?

 

[Cheems]

Here is a good example of safe membrane to clip away. Notice how clear the membrane and veins are on the right side? That is safe to remove.
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is the yellow part of that egg, like the membrane being yellow due to the duckling being yellow, or is it drying out? and is that a consistant thing? It isn't happening right now, I am just wondering because I cant tell if thats because of the color of the duckling.