BirchAndBeaks
In the Brooder
- Mar 9, 2025
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Hello! I have a Pekin cross egg I’m incubating and I’m wondering when/if I need to intervene. Here’s some details:
Today is day 32 of incubation. This is the last egg of the clutch. The rest of the clutch hatched between Saturday 3/22 and Monday 3/24.
This egg had an external pip yesterday morning. At that point I still had a few other ducklings in the incubator drying, and at some point yesterday the remaining egg wound up with a pretty significant crack that was definitely not the baby starting to zip. When I noticed it last night I could see that the membrane was shrink wrapping the baby despite humidity reading at 65%. The membrane was also still completely intact despite the external pipping on the shell. I was able to determine where active veins were and carefully opened the membrane and moistened it so the baby could move/breathe.
Baby was doing the yawning/chewing motion so I put it back in the incubator to finish absorbing the yolk (and moved the other ducklings out). I jacked the humidity up, and baby is still alive this morning. I’m hoping that with time it makes its way out without further assistance, but hoping to get some feedback from more experienced hatchers on when/if I should assist.
As of now we are about 30 hours after the external pipping and about 14 hours after shrink wrapping. Video was taken this morning - a little more than 24 hours after pipping.
Today is day 32 of incubation. This is the last egg of the clutch. The rest of the clutch hatched between Saturday 3/22 and Monday 3/24.
This egg had an external pip yesterday morning. At that point I still had a few other ducklings in the incubator drying, and at some point yesterday the remaining egg wound up with a pretty significant crack that was definitely not the baby starting to zip. When I noticed it last night I could see that the membrane was shrink wrapping the baby despite humidity reading at 65%. The membrane was also still completely intact despite the external pipping on the shell. I was able to determine where active veins were and carefully opened the membrane and moistened it so the baby could move/breathe.
Baby was doing the yawning/chewing motion so I put it back in the incubator to finish absorbing the yolk (and moved the other ducklings out). I jacked the humidity up, and baby is still alive this morning. I’m hoping that with time it makes its way out without further assistance, but hoping to get some feedback from more experienced hatchers on when/if I should assist.
As of now we are about 30 hours after the external pipping and about 14 hours after shrink wrapping. Video was taken this morning - a little more than 24 hours after pipping.
