#TikTok hack helped woman hatch duckling from supermarket egg

She’s a mother ducker.

A UK woman redefined “life hack” after miraculously hatching a duckling from an egg she’d bought at the grocery store. And now she plans to raise the baby duck as a pet, SWNS reported.

“It really hit me when I saw [it] come out of its shell,” said Wales’ Adele Phillips, 28, who’d been inspired to perform the resurr-egg-ction after seeing someone do an incubation challenge on TikTok.

The on-call firefighter bought a dozen free-range eggs from the local grocer and kept them in an airing cupboard while waiting for the incubator she’d bought to arrive.

The mama bird was later forced to jettison all but one embryo as the rest were infertile, she said.

“I looked online and it said you could check to see if they were fertile or not by shining a torch on them and seeing if you could see veins inside,” Phillips told Wales Online. “I could only see one with veins — which is the one I have now — and got rid of the rest.”

The surrogate duck mother looked after the straggler by turning it three times a day for 30 days to ensure that the temperature remained stable.

Despite her meticulousness, Phillips initially didn’t think her eggsperiment “was going to work.”

“During the whole process, everyone was looking at me, thinking ‘Are you insane?’” she recalled, adding that they thought she’d “end up with a boiled egg.”

The doubters were proven wrong when around a month later, something “started pecking little holes through the shell,” the expectant mama duck described. A “shocked” Phillips quickly recruited someone “from a duck page on Facebook” to guide her through the bird’s birth, the Independent reported.

Two days later, the duckling finally came out of its shell. Braddock Morris — named after its breed “Braddock White” and the Morrisons grocery store where it was bought — was born “100% healthy” on April 29.

Phillips announced the joyous occasion with a Facebook clip of her new feather baby. “Welcome to the world Braddock Morris the duckling from a free range Morrisons duck egg, well worth the 30 days of anxiety,” she wrote in the caption. “He’s here all safe, what an experiment that was and I can’t believe we actually did it!”

The new mother initially planned to give Braddock away, but her “heart melted” so much upon his birth that she decided to keep him a la “Horton Hatches the Egg.” She even bought him a duck buddy named Beryl so he won’t get lonely.

Braddock and Beryl currently live together in a box with a heat lamp, and Phillips eventually plans install a pond in her garden for her quackbabies.

Phillips, for one, is happy she gave Braddock a stay of eggsecution. “Whenever [Little Morris] sees my face he gets really excited and starts chirping really loud,” she gushed. “He’s so sweet, he cuddles up under my ear in my hair and his eyes close. Every time he looks at me I feel like my heart is going to explode.”

Her partner, meanwhile, thought the de-lay-ed delivery was “really cool and was shocked that could happen from a supermarket egg,” she said.

Needless to say, Phillips can’t look at scrambled eggs the same way ever again.

“I am a bit skeptical now about eating any eggs,” she said. “I will be thinking of mine every time I make scrambled eggs thinking that could have been my one.”