Thats just my opinion, it's extremely hard to tell at that age.. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you though!!
These are my 4 week old babies, I believe I have a male (right) and female (left) because the male has bigger body feet and head, it's a little easier when you have more than 1 to...
Yes I didnt keep him in there long. It ended up tearing free of its cord (there wasnt really any yolk left anyway) so I rinsed it off and stuck it back in the bator. Has a swollen abdomen so I'm giving it the same treatment as the first one, seems like it will make it too! :)
Second egg started hatching more last night, I was confident that it was going to be fine on its own, but I just checked on it after no progress and found that it was stuck in the membrane and some really hard dried amber goo..
So, I started to assist it, got halfway down the egg when I found...
Theres areas it can dip its whole bill in, I'm just paranoid it could drown itelf after all I've gone through keeping it alive! Lol.
Should I take the rocks out?
Update: got little ducky the nutri-drench and it helped tremendously! After giving that yesterday and feeding/ by hand, this morning he was up and walking around the bator (still a little wobbly).. his belly button is dried up, so I moved him to the brooder and first thing he did was take a few...
Started giving it some water with probiotics and electrolytes and it perked up right away! Still weak, but its now trying to get up on it's feet *fingers crossed*
Its been a really stressful week.. ducklings started hatching and I'm down to 2 from 6. One just made it out after 3 days of struggling but the cord was still attached
and the other one has internally pipped but thats it. It is now day 37. The duckling that hatched has torn off its umbilical...