Our goose Ava has been laying on some duck eggs and within the next week they should be hatching. Anyways she must have accidentally broken the outer shell of one of the eggs. I was unable to get to it until today, about three days after I noticed that it was broken. I was going to throw it out today but when I picked it up it was breathing and I could feel it's little body. The inner film is still in tact and it has lived without an outer shell for three days. Do you guys think it will hatch, and have a full life? Should I do something or just leave it alone? Ava doesn't seem to mind it and hasn't tried to throw it out of the nest. Please help!
This morning I went out and found that he had died in the night. Since their are two mothers trying to sit on one nest they got a bit rowdy and knocked the egg out of the nest. He was barely breathing when I got out their and very cold. I put him back under but he died and they kicked him back out. Little Pip did not make it but they are still laying on four eggs. I cracked the egg open to see what he would look like and it appears they started laying on eggs earlier than I thought. They will be hatching any moment now. Very far along. I also discovered that he looked exactly like his older brother when he hatched last year. Little Pip would have been a handsome little boy. I buried him with all the other great pets I've had and I hope he rests in peace with Pippyand her sister Rosy Up in farm heaven. 
