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oh and the temperature should be fine, I think, if it gets too low hatching may be a bit later but it seems about right to me.

If your first hatch was successful, I would stick to the same method. It sounds like the "too high" humidity wasn't a problem the first time since most hatched, and as @Bigblackcat mentioned, waterfowl eggs need more water than say chicken. I "dry hatched" mine, but where i live that means...

How much does the tuner turn? Chicken eggs would need more turning than quail eggs, I assume, wondering if that is the difference... I've never cracked open eggs after starting to incubate so I'm just guessing, but am not sure what is normal. Curious to see pics if that is an option, to learn...

If anyone is curious, different bear traps stored at a parks ranger office.

oh no! I'm sorry for your loss :hugs Once the zipping starts, it is usually pretty fast, so maybe it got stuck/couldn't move to finish hatching and got exhausted trying to come out. If you decide to do an autopsy, you might find if there were other factors contibuting. So sorry :(

I don't think chicken can refuse to lay just to spite you, they might try hiding their eggs or attack you to protect them, but it's not like they can decide when an egg is made. If they're young, they simply may be irregular, or they may be unwell or stressed. Either way they need your...

In that case, I would make a safety hole now just to be sure it doesn't run out of air from the air sac overnight. It just needs to be the size of a needle tip/as small as you can keep it. Are you familiar with how to make one? Example on a duck egg (it is on the side here instead of in the air...

How is the duckling doing today? In the future, consider candling the egg to understand better what is going on, instead of assisting early. I think it can finish hatching with no help when it is ready. Since it is pretty exposed, I would avoid touching it to reduce the risk of infection.

Disclaimer: I have no experience with goose eggs, but I read they can take 24 to 36 hours for it to hatch. How long has it been since the hatching process began? Is it late compared to other eggs incubated at the same time? Are you/they able to candle the egg to see how far along it is? If it's...

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It is hard to tell from the picture how much comes from dark color of the duck vs. the membrane itself, but the membrane on top also looks dark red to me. When I hatched mine, the membrane became clear when oiling it once the veins were fully absorbed, and all the little veins on top were gone...

did you find her? how old is she and how long did you have the duck? long enough she knows where home is? where does she sleep everyday? did she go there? if not, maybe she looked for a safe place to sleep? but i am also concerned by predator or car. does she have water? maybe she is at a pond...

Could she have gotten into some food that may prevent calcium from being taken in, like spinach or something else with oxalic acid in it? Just throwing it out there as another alternative for why maybe she's having issues despite having access to enough calcium sources.

Sorry you had to go through this and lost some hens. I agree electric fencing. Hot wire near the ground and at bear's head level increases odds it'll get zapped in the nose, which is possibly the only place they would feel it. Plan for a backup generator to keep the e-fence on if you are...

Maybe the white drakes try to camouflage from predators by not washing up :gig

I completely forgot about this, but yes, my duck eggs were extra gooey when hatching too compared to any of my chicks. I put them all in cups for nothing at the time :P Congratulations on your babies so far!

My muscovi drake is a little stinker too. I have a kiddie pool and a bathtub in the run and there's a pond and streams he can access but nope! The only way he will stay in the bath is if there is a female to mate with, and I'm pretty sure my girl doesn't bathe as often because of that (but she...

Keep checking for bruises regardless! This is the one mistake I made: I had a safety hole in air cell and though I could stop worrying about it, and then I guess the chick turned (maybe my handling it confused it? XD or I was mistaken about internal pip) and it ended up bruising the side/bottom...

yup, I use a disinfected needle too. (one meant for a sewing machine) I just gently scratch the surface of the egg in a tiny circle with the tip until i get through and then carefully poke through the film at the end and check if i can indeed see the beak. It takes a few minutes but i'm too...

So sorry for your loss. :hugs