A California woman, Betsy Ross was praised for saving a cracked egg until it become a full-grown chick. Ross and her family were walking in a public park when her kids noticed that someone had maliciously smashed up the duck nests and damaged the egg.
Miraculously, one of the duck eggs had survived with a little crack. Her kids wants her to save it and try to help until it will hatch as much as possible. With a little knowledge on how to save the lone egg, and looking at her begging kids - as a mother she will do everything just to save whatever left.
She took the egg home and started incubating it in her cleavage. That was the start of a remarkable journey of the lone survivor duck egg and Ross, where she have to carry it for 35 days.
Since she don't have the incubator, and after learning that local wildlife rescue organization won't accept eggs, she had to find ways to hatch it herself. After a few research on how to hatch an egg, the best spot she could think of to keep the egg warm was in her chest, since it requires warmth and humidity.
“My boobs sweat in heat (gross I know),” Ross said in an interview with Bored Panda. “I carried it in my bra for 35 days and slept with it there as well. I’m a plus size girl so it just kinda fit right between my breasts.”
Photo credits: Betsy Ross / Bored Panda
Most of the time the duck egg was in her bra, even when she go to bed. The only time they parted was when she go to for shower, figuring it out that the egg survives during a mother ducks left the nest every once in a while to get for food.
After several days of doing a routine, Betsy have to continue her research on what to do when a duckling is hatching and how to care for it after. She learned that she needed to stop rotating the egg. She also prepares a lamp, a plastic container, gallon baggies, a bowl of water, a lot of tape and made a hatching box in preparation to create a suitable environment for the duckling.
“At 35 days, I started hearing faint peeps which the internet said was called pipping and its beak was pushing out of the lining”
“He eventually got out half-way but was still connected to the yolk on the bottom of the egg,” Betsy said. “I was told it was because he was early but found out on reddit it was from not being warm enough or the temperature not being stable.”
Days after she got out of the shell she noticed that he was weak didn’t really move or stand but Betsy didn’t give up on him and helped him up to drink water.
“One day, we woke up and he was walking. Later on, I would let him swim in the tub and mud puddles”
“He is doing well and has a new human girl who loves him,” Betsy Ross said.
“One day, we woke up and he was walking. Later on, I would let him swim in the tub and mud puddles”
“He is doing well and has a new human girl who loves him,” Betsy Ross said.
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