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runner duck pipped wrong end and making no progress

post #1 of 11
4/12/12 at 8:26pm
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I have a runner duck that is on day 29. Externally pipped early this am but has made no progress. What should I do?
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post #2 of 11
4/12/12 at 8:26pm
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It pipped the wrong end
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post #3 of 11
4/12/12 at 8:51pm

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post #4 of 11
4/12/12 at 10:12pm

if it can breathe then you can either wait for it or you can take tiny chips of the eggshell around where the baby would make its hole to get out. if it is really stuck (like if the membrane is dry) the you can help it out, but you dont want to help it out if the yolk is not absorbed. Good luck.

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"There is nothing in which the birds differ more than man than the way in which they can build and yet leave the landscape as it was before"

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post #5 of 11
4/12/12 at 10:14pm

sometimes they take a long time to get out

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"There is nothing in which the birds differ more than man than the way in which they can build and yet leave the landscape as it was before"

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post #6 of 11
4/13/12 at 6:38am

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  AnnElise Clark

 

~Chickens are like potato chips, you can't just have one!~ 

 

Silver Laced Wyandotte's, Silkies, Ameraucana's, Easter Egger's, Belgian d'anvers, Leghorns, California Whites, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Black Australorps, Buff Orpingtons, one Black Jersey Giant rooster, Guinea's, Ducks, and one Sweetgrass turkey tom. 

 

 

 

 

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post #7 of 11
4/13/12 at 7:22am

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post #8 of 11
4/13/12 at 8:06am
Hi and welcome-byc.gif from Ohio. So glad you joined. I wait around 24-30 hrs, then I start helping, Peel the shell and membrane little by little. Stop if you see blood in the veins and wait a few more hours, then continue. Good luck. thumbsup.gif

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TIME is the best thing to spend on a child!
Always calibrate your hygrometer before you incubate!!

Home to Black East Indies, Mandarins, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rock, Golden Buffs, Welsummers, Ameraucanas, Black Australorp, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Two Weimaraners, Two beautiful daughters and a great DH who builds whatever I need!

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post #9 of 11
4/13/12 at 3:27pm

  frow.gif & welcome-byc.gif from Alabama. Glad you joined us. Great advice given thumbsup.gif

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Dorothy: The woman keeps a chicken in her home, how normal can she be?
Rose: I kept a chicken in my home.
Dorothy: You see my point?
The Golden Girls "Long Day's Journey Into Marinara"

 

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post #10 of 11
4/13/12 at 10:28pm
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So I got home from work tonight and still no progress.  externally pipped yesterday early am.  I peeled back the shell little by little throughout the day and was finally able to see that the yolk sac had absorbed.  I finally got the little guy out and found that he hadn't detached yet and is now bleeding.  Did I just kill my poor little duck?

 

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