Hello,
Thank you in advance for any help offered.
I have incubated plenty of chicken eggs and have had to intervene a few times, I always wait the 48 hours and only ever help minimally.
I recently had some very clucky hens & there were not fertile chicken eggs in my city so I bought some duck eggs (6), and I placed 3 under each chicken.
Hatch day isn’t until tomorrow, but one duckling is out, the other has pipped (with no progress overnight) and the other, which is in the one question, is not pipped at all.
I’ve never hatched ducklings before (runner ducklings) so I am unfamiliar with what to expect.
Usually I would never, ever put a pip in an egg, but I’m really worried about this one duckling and want to know what you’d do?
It’s a weird coloured egg, black at one end, almost like an internally pipped egg but nothing externally. I can feel it in the egg moving about, it just hasn’t seemed to be able to pip through.
What would you do/should I do? I’m terrified to pip it externally for the duckling because I know it can cause so much more damage than good, it’s just hard seeing it struggle. I’d say it’s been internally pipped or at least working on it for 36-48 hours that I’ve noticed.
Thanks again for your help
Thank you in advance for any help offered.
I have incubated plenty of chicken eggs and have had to intervene a few times, I always wait the 48 hours and only ever help minimally.
I recently had some very clucky hens & there were not fertile chicken eggs in my city so I bought some duck eggs (6), and I placed 3 under each chicken.
Hatch day isn’t until tomorrow, but one duckling is out, the other has pipped (with no progress overnight) and the other, which is in the one question, is not pipped at all.
I’ve never hatched ducklings before (runner ducklings) so I am unfamiliar with what to expect.
Usually I would never, ever put a pip in an egg, but I’m really worried about this one duckling and want to know what you’d do?
It’s a weird coloured egg, black at one end, almost like an internally pipped egg but nothing externally. I can feel it in the egg moving about, it just hasn’t seemed to be able to pip through.
What would you do/should I do? I’m terrified to pip it externally for the duckling because I know it can cause so much more damage than good, it’s just hard seeing it struggle. I’d say it’s been internally pipped or at least working on it for 36-48 hours that I’ve noticed.
Thanks again for your help
